egosurfing

See also: ego-surfing and ego surfing

English

Alternative forms

• ego surfing, ego-surfing

Etymology

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

Noun

egosurfing (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.

   Synonym: vanity surfing

   • 2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:

     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.

Translations

using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web

• Irish: mise-scimeáil m, féinscimeáil m
• Japanese: エゴサーチ (ja) (egosāchi), エゴサ (ja) (egosa)

Verb

egosurfing

1. present participle and gerund of egosurf

Further reading

• egosurfing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia