THEME: GOO

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
March 28, 2004	551	Lost in Translation	Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English.	GOO LAN	Text file
July 11, 2004	566	Get Whack	Type a two-word phrase into the Google search engine that produces exactly one result.	GOO	Text file
June 10, 2007	717	Pitch Us a No-Hitter	Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits.	GOO	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 8, 2008	755	Take Another 'Whack	Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase.	GOO	Text file | Post e-version
April 12, 2008	760	Whacksy Buildup	Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style.	GOO JEO	Text file
May 9, 2009	816	Googillions	Come up with an original phrase that generates at least 1 million listings on a Google search.	GOO	Text file | Contest image
April 17, 2010	865	No Googlenopes left	Come up with a humorous Googlenope.	GOO	Text file | Post e-version
June 24, 2012	977	Lost in Translation 2.0	Translate a line of text from English into another language using Google Translate; then copy that result and translate it back into English. You may also make intermediate steps into one or more other languages.	GOO LAN	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 11, 2018	1305	Hits and Googles	Find us either a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates no previous hits -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits.	GOO WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 20, 2022	1476	Matchless humor -- show us some Googlenopes	Find us a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates the message "It looks like there aren't many matches for your search" -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits. (Conversational text)	GOO	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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