Definitions
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- verb To search the
Internet for references to one's name or works in order to gratify one's ego.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I supposed I should be embarrassed to confess this, but I regularly egosurf, and I probably see the overwhelming majority of my online reviews.
MIND MELD: How Have Online Book Reviews Affected the Publishing World? 2007
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At any rate, Internet thumb twiddling combined with an egosurf produces blog posts like this.
A Nice Review jimvanpelt 2007
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Not that I egosurf or anything, you understand, but I happened to notice that somebody was linking to me:
Yikes! I've Been Blognapped glyn moody 2007
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Not that I egosurf or anything, you understand, but I happened to notice that somebody was linking to me:
Archive 2007-11-01 glyn moody 2007
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Found on a recent egosurf: probably the only poetry prize in the world where i have a chance of getting the judges to take a second look at my stuff!
Archive 2004-01-01 2004
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This evening, I ran across a web site called "www. egosurf.com" which will do a web search on your name and provide up to 20 web sites that contain your name.
Connell, James J. 1966
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While I've been known to egosurf my own name online every once in a while, setting a Google Alert on my name means I don't have to do it so much.
GigaOM Network Will Kelly 2009
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