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A sonnet will be deemed googleable and thus disqualified as a finalist (while still giving the author the opportunity to submit a replacement sonnet -- although the replacement might fail to achieve finalist status) if:
1) The sonnet appears on the first or second page only of Google search results with "TITLE" as the search string (where "TITLE" is the full string for the sonnet's title, enclosed in quotes),
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The problem with this is that entirely different sonnets may well have the same title. For instance, I've written sonnets named "Epistemology," "Fair is Fair," "Far Away," and "First and Last Time," to pick 4 from an alphabetized list. It doesn't seem at all unlikely that some other poet has recently used those titles.