Add To Lexicon: Googleganger
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=googlegangers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven, Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her. After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: I know about the porn, Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a Googlegänger, a virtual doppelgänger with the same name. Obviously [mom] wanted to hear my side of the story, says Eve. but she put a lot of trust in Google as a source.. Hey! I got an astrophysicist Googleganger! http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=Robert+Seeberger xponent Twins Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: --===0020866293== http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=googlegangers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven, Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her. After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: I know about the porn, Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a Googleg?nger, a virtual doppelg?nger with the same name. Obviously [mom] wanted to hear my side of the story, says Eve. but she put a lot of trust in Google as a source.. I heard of bad things like that even before Google -- someone's boss got this new web-based background-check tool, entered the employee's name, found someone with the same name with a record, and chewed him out and fired him in front of the customers. Some people need more clue before they should be let near that sort of thing, and there are no clue-checkers acting as gateways. So that problem will always happen as long as any 2 people can have the same name. The other thing is that a good number of porn stars are going to be working under aliases. (Duh.) If you give your kid a name that might be a good porn star name, then yeah, that'll happen. Sheesh. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger
I prefer the portmanteau doppelgoogle, which is how I've seen it for a few years now. I think it's easier on the tongue and has more linguistic merit than googleganger which doesn't make as much sense in my opinion. But that's just my opinion. On 9/30/07, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven, Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her. After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: I know about the porn, Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a Googlegänger, a virtual doppelgänger with the same name. Obviously [mom] wanted to hear my side of the story, says Eve. but she put a lot of trust in Google as a source.. Hey! I got an astrophysicist Googleganger! http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=Robert+Seeberger xponent Twins Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger
At 11:16 AM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: --===0020866293== http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=googlegangers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven, Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her. After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: I know about the porn, Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a Googlegänger, a virtual doppelgänger with the same name. Obviously [mom] wanted to hear my side of the story, says Eve. but she put a lot of trust in Google as a source.. I heard of bad things like that even before Google -- someone's boss got this new web-based background-check tool, entered the employee's name, found someone with the same name with a record, and chewed him out and fired him in front of the customers. And did the employee sue, or better yet, did the employer find out his error and admit the mistake and restore the person's employment status and expunge all negative information from his record? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 11:16 AM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: --===0020866293== http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=googlegangers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven, Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her. After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: I know about the porn, Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a Googlegänger, a virtual doppelgänger with the same name. Obviously [mom] wanted to hear my side of the story, says Eve. but she put a lot of trust in Google as a source.. I heard of bad things like that even before Google -- someone's boss got this new web-based background-check tool, entered the employee's name, found someone with the same name with a record, and chewed him out and fired him in front of the customers. And did the employee sue, or better yet, did the employer find out his error and admit the mistake and restore the person's employment status and expunge all negative information from his record? To the best of my knowledge, the owner called that weekend begging the guy to come back. I don't know what happened after that, except that the business closed down less than a year later. (The individual chewn out by the manager and fired in front of the customers was being groomed to take over in a necessary capacity when the person in that position left, which was a couple of months away at the time of the incident.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
