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ego surfing

ego surfing is the alternative form of egosurfing.

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 lifters
  2. ego lifting
  3. ego loss
  4. ego shooter
  5. ego shooters
  6. ego surfing
  7. ego syntonic
  8. ego trip
  9. ego trips
  10. ego'd
  11. ego-

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