Googlism was invented as an entertaining application to see what
opinions Google has of certain topics and people.
Googlism’s search
results are not Google’s
opinions, since Google does not generate
opinions, but the results are harvested by Googlism from millions
performing Google searches, often asking questions, and from web site
owners.
Entering a word into the search window and selecting
from Who, What, Where, or When searches is enough to yield hundred, if
not thousands of hilarious, surreal and often believable returns.
For example, entering “plumber” into the Who search yields
plumber is so good to find plumber is in plumber is so sexy plumber is starting
an 8 hour day
plumber is no longer just a "worker in lead"
plumber is
in singapore
plumber is needed
plumber is back in a 'new' adventure for
plumber is here
and entering “Budapest” into the Where search gives
budapest
is spa town
budapest is calling for applications
budapest is
falling
budapest is on a roll by thomas dombrowski
budapest is a
strange and sometimes wonderful city
Seartchers usually try
being inventive with Googlism searches. For example, the typical
experiment search is the inverse of Googlism, which involves entering
an expression that starts with “who is …” into the Who search, which
yields a list of surprising characters. Google results
contain thousands of surfers’ ideas and opinions about countless
topics, professions, characters, titles, people, names, things,
concepts, events, dates and places, hence all that Googlism’s software
has to do is search Google and report to a Googlism searcher what
website owners think about the name or topic the surfers suggested.The
Googlism.com was invented by Paul Cherry September 2002 and creatively
programmed by Chris Morton a month later. Since then it has been owned
by Domain Active, an Australian company. Googlism had become so popular
that in January 2004, Google.com tried to block Googlism.com from
asking Google servers for new Googlisms. To no avail, and Googlism.com
had easily grown from an average of 15,000 unique queries a day to
millions.