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Googlewhacks are (ideally) two-word combinations that return exactly one hit on Google. I think they must also have a certain Je ne c'est qua to them. Not just any two-word combination that satisfies the Google constraint ought to be considered a beautiful whack! Of course, the value of a whack is correspondingly lower if it's only hit happens to be in a "list of words" document, as opposed to a cogent discussion of some kind. And oh, the words need to be valid dictionary entries. i.e. underlined in the result bar returned by Google.

Check www.googlewhack.com for the authoritative guide to googlewhacking.
As of Feb 2002:

• Onomatopoeic dandelions
• Proletarian gaussians
• Geosynchronous suppository
• Bisexual bric-a-bracs
• Simplex somnambulator
• Particular pompasses
• Morphophonemic mellifluence
• Minstrel singularization
• Anachronous implantation

Note

I have received a number of email messages pointing out that the above combinations are not Googlewhacks because they return multiple hits when Googled! But I wish to point out that they were valid whacks at the time I discovered them. Needless to say, I automatically rob them of their "Googlewhack" status by "owning" them via on my own page.

If you could see the individual molecules of air in a perfectly still room, you would see that the molecules are anything but still. They are moving in all directions, apparently randomly. Each has its own spin, and its own story to tell. Yet the room itself, made up of millions of these molecules, has the picture of perfect calmness as though nothing in it is even stirring. In the calm of this room lies buried the solution to the most pressing problem in objective journalism.

In what may be Governor Schwarzenegger's most sympathetic move yet to make housing more affordable for potential home-buyers in California, he does what he can to encourage young Californians to migrate away from the state, thus setting the stage for home-prices to spiral downwards.

With already ailing education budgets slashed even further, convicted criminals let loose to terrorize innocent citizens and 20% of state parks closed, the Governor hopes that more productive Californians will be encouraged to seek domicile in Oregon and nearby states. This calculated and clever move will enable property prices eventually to reach levels where the 22,000 inmates, who will be in dire need of good housing after their early releases, can afford them.

There it is. Fragment from a mystery novel as it were, when you gauge your own mental reaction as you read the passage, you will find it to be a clear example: Most reasonable people would not think twice about sanctioning techniques, including the administration of polygraph tests, that authorities may use to probe into and conclude on the conents of that innermost repository of our private thoughts - our mind. Yet, it appears unreasonable to most of us if authorities claim to have the ability, much less to use it, to determine probable intent in criminal behavior from one's behavior on the Internet. Is the Internet that different in people's perceptions as a place where absolute anonymity may be enjoyed regardless of disposition and intent? Indeed, do people honestly believe it is ok to probe one's mind, but not one's online behavior?