I have been spending quite a bit of time this morning googling oracle functions. I'm having a problem with one I created and it's bothering me that there isn't a lot of info out there about my particular issue. Well it might also be due to my strategically placed double-quotes to filter out some of the hundreds of results that get returned when you google anything with the word "oracle" in your search phrase. One particular search yielded one and only one result however. I thought - great... Not much help here. And then it hit me - I've just experienced a Googlewhack! Well actually it wasn't a true googlewhack as it doesn't fit into their 2 word with no double quotes restriction, but it came pretty darn close. That triggered a memory I had from my grad school cryptography course. One of our assignments was to come up with 2 unique words that, when searched in google, would return only 1 result. I have no idea how that fit in with the whole cryptography lesson, but I do remember spending HOURS trying to come up with a combination that worked. I think I finally found one after I pulled out my old Biology 101 textbook from my undergrad days to search for new words. Hmm...maybe there was a reason why I started my undergrad as a bio major before switching to CS... Who knew a bio textbook would come in handy during a graduate cryptography course!!
So if you happen to find yourself with a few extra minutes/hours/days (not to mention have an extraordinary vocabulary) try it for yourself. And if you do happen upon that rare singular result, be sure to record it in The Whack Stack
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