egosurfing

See also: ego-surfing and ego surfing

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ego +‎ surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.[1]

Noun

egosurfing (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.
    • 2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:
      One offshoot of this new narcissism is “egosurfing,” in which one searches the Internet for information about oneself. A company—egoSurf—was created especially to do this.

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Verb

egosurfing

  1. present participle and gerund of egosurf

References

  1. ^ “Jargon Watch”, in Wired‎[1], March 1995, archived from the original on 13 October 1999

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