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sionnach commented on the word googleganger
googleganger -- another person of the same name, whose records are intermixed with your own when you "google" yourself. I love this word! One could argue for an umlaut over the a, to make the parallel with doppelganger more complete, but either way, this coinage is genius!
February 19, 2007
seanahan commented on the word googleganger
This word definitely has its uses.
February 19, 2007
sionnach commented on the word googleganger
I have two primary googlegangers. One is a professor of Chinese at the University of Virginia, the other is a minister somewhere near Hobart, in Australia.
February 19, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word googleganger
For someone I live with, one of his two googlegangers is a gay travel writer, and one is a Grammy-award-winning sound engineer.
February 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word googleganger
I have an unusual first name but a very common last name. I'm always surprised how many googlegangers I have, and slightly disappointed. I grew up thinking I had a terribly unique name. But there's still only one me.
And I'm not aware of anyone else who goes by the name "uselessness" online, which I think is just fun. I mean, how many ordinary words are such a chore to say, and contain no fewer than 5 S's? And describe me so well, at that? :-D
February 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word googleganger
Gee, I feel sorta left out. Of googlegangers, I have none.
Then again, anyone lucky enough to spell my name correctly would definitely get a Googlestar.
February 19, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word googleganger
One of my googlegangers is in business with his brother, and together they were reckoned to be worth £89 million in 2005.
November 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word googleganger
Good enough reason to become your googleganger, I'd say.
November 2, 2007
jonallen commented on the word googleganger
It's suchh a good word that the American Dialect Society have voted it the Most creative word of the year for 2007.
January 7, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
Sigh, my googleganger was a famous Italian photographer (soccer and Pope, very very Italian) who died in 2005.
Soccer and the Pope are 90% of the results for my name.
I hate soccer, and I'm atheist.
April 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word googleganger
I hate neologisms that are Trojan horses for proprietary brand names.
April 4, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
Yeah, that's why I prefer the term searchwikiaganger.
April 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word googleganger
Nobody is listing searchwikiaganger. Why don't you?
:-)
April 4, 2008
plethora commented on the word googleganger
My googleganger is a Canadian TV personality. She is also my searchwikiaganger.
April 4, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
I don't have a list for most of my wordworks, so they happen to be orphans (see e.g. sproutade).
April 4, 2008
gangerh commented on the word googleganger
My googleganger is googlegangerh.
April 8, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word googleganger
googlehangeroner?? the galloping frugalgoogler?? a wiki(w)rid(t)er who stays in step or an orthodoxorthopedic
April 10, 2008
peck_jon commented on the word googleganger
Properly speaking, shouldn't the word be doppelgoogle? "Google double" makes a lot more sense than "Google walker"
From the German:
doppel = double
ganger = walker/wanderer
April 12, 2008
seanahan commented on the word googleganger
Peck_Jon, you are brilliant, and correct. This term is hereby removed from the common usage. Unless of course, Google does a Yellow Pages spoof.
April 14, 2008
frindley commented on the word googleganger
Although it be all wrong, I do like the alliterative potential of googleganger when translated "google goer".
April 14, 2008
frindley commented on the word googleganger
I'm also reminded that there are other similar constructions in English, where the portion of the original word chosen for creation of a new word is the "wrong" bit for the intended meaning. Why can I not think of any examples? If I could I would be able to make a list.
April 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
And I will be happy to add words to that list!
The only example I remember right now is not exactly what you mean, but it's close enough: schoolbus, minibus etc. derive from omnibus, "for all" in Latin.
April 14, 2008
mollusque commented on the word googleganger
Brain itch alert! I've seen such words too, frindley, but none are surfacing.
April 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word googleganger
I'd include things like soyacino in this, because -cino is just a derivation from the diminuitive suffix -ino. It doesn't specifically have anything to do with coffee, it's just there due to to mental association with cappuccino.
April 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word googleganger
Prolagus, are you thinking of aphesis?
April 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
Good link monsieur reesetee!
April 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word googleganger
Thank you, Don Prolagus.
April 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word googleganger
"Why do so many feel a connection — be it kinship or competition — with utter strangers just because they share a name?
"Social science, it turns out, has an answer. It is because human beings are unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves.
"A psychological theory called the name-letter effect maintains that people like the letters in their own names (particularly their initials) better than other letters of the alphabet." -- Stephanie Rosenbloom, "Names That Match Forge a Bond on the Internet," NYT Online, 4/10/08
April 15, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
Here is another example of a cranberry morpheme, frindley:
gaydar!
(But it's not the kind of word you're looking for, is it?)
April 17, 2008
sionnach commented on the word googleganger
FWIW, I don't think that 'gaydar' is a cranberry morpheme; if anything, it would be the 'dar' part.
I seem to recall reading an article recently which suggested that 'dango' was an up-and-coming cranberry morpheme.
April 17, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word googleganger
Uh, ok! I didn't read the definition well enough, sorry.
Then, what's the name of such words?
April 17, 2008
simianaudio commented on the word googleganger
I saw another good spin on this one on Twitter today - someone with your name with whom you battle for pagerank supremacy.
July 20, 2008
larkaflint commented on the word googleganger
If you guys doesn’t have any idea what Googleganger means, watch this short video from google lab:
http://tubedirects.net/index.php?q=Googleganger
November 18, 2008
andrewjstoffel commented on the word googleganger
The definition is "The individual who appears when one is searching for his/herself on Google."
March 12, 2017