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ego-surfing

ego-surfing is the alternative form of egosurfing.

ego-surfing is the present participle and gerund of ego-surf.

Meaning of egosurfing

Noun

egosurfing (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) 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
    Synonyms:
    vanity surfing

Questions about ego-surfing

What is ego-surfing the alternative form of?
Ego-surfing is the alternative form of egosurfing.

Words near ego-surfing in the dictionary

  1. ego-mindedness
  2. ego-self
  3. ego-selves
  4. ego-surf
  5. ego-surfed
  6. ego-surfing
  7. ego-surfs
  8. ego-syntonic
  9. ego-trip
  10. ego-tripped
  11. ego-tripping

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