Google has had such a profound effect on pop culture and the world that Google aficionados have even created certain terms that apply specifically to Google’s vast universe. Here are a few examples:

– To google (v.) To use Google Web Search to obtain information on the Internet

Merriam Webster included the term in its online edition.

– Googler (n.) A person who efficiently uses Google’s features

– Google-proof (n.) Search results are exactly what the user intended.

– Sandbox Effect (n.) A phenomenon in which Google search returns filter out new Web sites in an effort to combat spam

– Google bomb (n.) An attempt to influence the page ranking of a search return, oftentimes for humorous or political reasons

Example: Searching ‘miserable failure’ used to have the first Google return as President George W. Bush’s biography on whitehouse.gov.

– Google twin (n.) A person that shares your name and whose information returns when a user searches that name

– Googlewhack (n.) Conducting a search with two words, without quotation marks, and getting just one search return

SOURCE: wikipedia.org

Published on April 3, 2007 at 12:00 pm