Googlenope

googlenope English Alternative forms en googlenope Etymology From en Google nope. Noun en internet slang neologism A phrase that returns no results when entered between quotes into Google. en 2007-05-27 Gene Weingarten http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301290.html Zero-Based Journalism w:The Washington Post When a phrase cannot be found on Google, I call it a Googlenope. Once a Googlenope is discovered and written about, it is no longer a Googlenope. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424121902/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301290.html en 2007-08-14 Emma Cowing http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13108439.html Time to acknowledge 'No' really means 'No' w:The Scotsman Amusingly, googlenope was itself a googlenope, until some bright spark - the writer Gene Weingarten - came up with the word. en 2009-07-04 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/leave-nothing-unsaid/article637853.ece Leave nothing unsaid w:The Hindu Gene had many Googlenopes on that day: Queen Elizabeth’s buttocks; I believe dust mites have souls; https://web.archive.org/web/20210109153822/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Leave-nothing-unsaid/article15917093.ece en 2010-11-22 Michael Kesterton http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/googlenopes-celebrate-the-unlikely/article1461916/ Googlenopes - phrases that return no results - celebrate the unlikely w:The Globe and Mail Invented by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, googlenopes such as "Laura Bush's secret tattoo" and "The sensual feel of the speculum" are celebrations of the unlikely. https://web.archive.org/web/20250123193155/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/googlenopes-celebrate-the-unlikely/article1461916/ en Google Zero