googlism

Googlism is a web-application which queries text in google, and displays the multiple ways in which the term is used among the results. The point is to type a word, and see what google "thinks" about that word. "It parses the results of a Google search, extracting oracular nuggets of wisdom like "dick cheney is not dead yet," "^[1] As its home website describes: "Within the Google results are thousands of your thoughts and opinions about thousands of different topics, people, names, things and places, we simply search Google and let you know what website owners think about the name or topic you suggested.".^[2]

For example, a query for "asdf" returns among others:
asdf is better than your asdf
asdf is free
asdf is the label and $ is the designation
asdf is a declarative system definition tool after the pattern of mark kantrowitz's
asdf is and what they do
asdf is located at camp denali
asdf is interested in working with nigerian writers to improve the quality of their screenplays

Googlism is a popular tool for the generation of non sequitur humour. "Its like a zany-madcap humour generator" - Waldopepper, FilePile. It is also a presentation of internet postmodernism.

It was created by Paul Sherry and Chris Morton. The site has been featured in PCMag.com, About.com and ZDNet.com. ^[3]

External Links

• Home site
• Software for command-line and Python googlism access

References

• ^ http://www.googlism.com/about.htm
• ^ pcmag.com article

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