That which cannot be googled

The Web has made cheaters of us all. It's why I don't play online Scrabble anymore. I like to play honestly. It's more of a challenge. Until I find myself getting smoked by my 11-year-old nephew with "Zymurgy" on a triple word. Right. Then the gloves come off and the anagram generator comes up, you little squirt. But where's the fun in that?

(cnet) The tendency for people to cheat online is one of the reasons I initially told Jeremy Toeman I wasn't going to cover his Twitter quiz game, Trivia On Twitter, which rewards fast answers to Twittered trivia questions with real prizes. What's the challenge here? Anything you can ask can be googled. The best players would be those who are able to read search results pages the fastest. No fun.

But, Toeman told me today, he's trying to come up with trivia challenges that rewards more than google skills. Some of the questions involve calculations, or multiple steps, such as "How many U.S. states are there with only four different letters in their names?" He's also looking at creating picture questions, in which players have to identify an image. He'll be running the pictures through an image editor first, modifying them so image-matching engines like TinEye are not likely to find them. ...Go to source