Googlegänger: Person with your name who shows up when you google yourself.
This was one of the nominees (PDF) for the American Dialect Society's 2007 Word of the Year. I like it! (Probably because I have a huge problem in this regard, with only an unsatisfactory workaround.)
The winner, btw, was subprime. Snooze.
(h/t: Mike Nizza)
2 comments:
Yes, I have 2 Googlegangers who share my name and have hundreds more web mentions than myself.I like that because it leaves my skeletons buried many, many pages deep in google searches...
Sornie:
That's one way to look at it. More paranoid types, like me, would fret about being accused of the wrongdoings of a namesake.
Okay, that's not really one of my biggest worries. Right now, I'm far more upset that people might thing I'm a (*shudder*) TV REPORTER.
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