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egosurfing en · NOUN

Etymology

From ego- + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.

Meanings

1. (Internet, uncountable) The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.
   • 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. 2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:

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Synonyms

vanity surfing

Translations (4)

ja エゴサ (using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web) · ga mise-scimeáil (using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web) · ja エゴサーチ (using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web) · ga féinscimeáil (using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web)

egosurfing en · VERB

Etymology

From ego- + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of egosurf
   form of egosurf

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