Google Game

The aim of the Google Game is to enter three search words and return the lowest number of hits. No results is no result, so the best combination of search terms you can have will produce one (1) hit. It's harder than it sounds.

So far my best score is two pages, which made me very curious about whose websites are (according to Google) the only ones in the world to simultaneously contain 'lacksadaisical', 'spoke' and 'lambast'.

The first site consisted entirely of the random-word gobbledygook that usually arrives as spam, until I hit 'cached' and discovered an abandoned blog. On closer inspection, there was no 'lacksadaisical' at all, just something lacking. Coincidentally - if that concept is valid- the last entry to that blog was made on my birthday.

The second site drops you into the middle of an ongoing discussion / dispute about the validity of the King James Version (bible translation).

No great joy for me in that particular articulation of a potentially fascinating debate, except that while checking that all the words were there, and that they were deployed coherently, I tripped over this:

I knew an immigrant from Italy who spoke broken English, and could not understand the modern translations of the Bible, yet he understood the KJV just fine. That might be an abberation except that I seem to read similar accounts elsewhere of people with limited knowledge of English, who understood the KJV better than modern translations.

I've taken that comment away to mull over it for a while.