Have I ever told you how much I love Metafilter?
This Metafilter Post is a great discussion on
typing random words into Google to see what comes
back. It turns out there is a name for only getting one
result from a search engine (I know, it doesn\’t happen
much), hapax legomenon, is a word or
phrase of which there is only one recorded use.
They point out it\’s also being used in the context of
search engines, and that makes perfect sense to me.
They also point out an interesting web-only thing:
\”The beauty thing about a hapax legomenon is
that once you talk about it, it no longer exists. Once
google indexes this page, \”i am joe\’s spleen\” will return two
hits, and the hapax legomenon is no longer.\”
So, once google crawls this, and mefi, this will no
longer be a Hapax Legomenon!
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