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egosurfing

egosurfing noun: the act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet. Also the present participle and gerund of egosurf.

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

Also used as

egosurfing is also the present participle and gerund of egosurf.

Synonyms of egosurfing

Forms of egosurfing

alternative formego surfing
alternative formego-surfing

Origin of egosurfing

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

Questions about egosurfing

What does egosurfing mean?
Egosurfing means the act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.
What part of speech is egosurfing?
Egosurfing is a noun.

Words near egosurfing in the dictionary

  1. egostans
  2. egosurf
  3. egosurfed
  4. egosurfer
  5. egosurfers
  6. egosurfing
  7. egosurfs
  8. egosyntonia
  9. egosyntonic
  10. egosyntonicity
  11. EGOT

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