"Googleganger" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: Googleganger

Note: From the German word "doppelgänger," meaning a look-alike or a double of a person.

Filed under: English, Online, New or Nonce

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: It was an honest mistake: Eve’s name kept showing up on X-rated sites when her mother Googled it to keep tabs on her daughter. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn’t her Eve—it was a “Googleganger,” a virtual doppelganger linked by a shared name thanks to the all-knowing search engine.

Article or document title:
“What’s in a name? Only Google knows” (URL)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Daily Herald

Publishing location:
Chicago, Illinois

Date of publication:
Oct. 4, 2007

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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Comments:

The more one searches for a subject, animate or otherwise, the more that subject "shows up" in web statistics and the greater the liklihood that promoters of sites will add that subject to the keyword lists that they use to try and improve the search engine ranking of their site.
by JEROME L GELB 29 Oct 07, 0407 GMT

Some people have a fascination with their Googlegangers. Perhaps seeing them as akin to alter egos in another reality, or multiple egos in this reality. Given this, perhaps the death of a Googleganger is worthy of reflection. Did you just lose some part of yourself?

What is that person? How about a GOOGLEGEIST. This term currently has minor other meanings. But I posit that it be imbued with this meaning.

Wes Boudville
by Wes Boudville 19 Jul 08, 0816 GMT