One of my frequent rants is "Not everything is available on the Internet for free, and there are somethings Google won't find for you." I'll save the details of that rant for later. When I saw the latest entries from Word Spy, I giggled with delight.
I'm working both of these words into my vocabulary and I'm determined to use each of them in a professional setting.
googleability (goo.gul.uh.BIL.uh.tee) n. The ease with which information about a person can be found on an Internet search engine, particularly Google. Also: Googleability, googlability, google-ability.—googleable adj.
Example Citation:
What's your 'googleability' quotient? No clue? Well, then check it out right away because if the world's premier search engine can't trace you in less than a second, then you are a certified also-ran; or so parents of newborns in the US feel. News reports say that 'googleability' is now a primary baby-naming requirement, which means that parents want names for their children which will work well for web searches: an unusual name that might figure among the first top 10 search results.—"The name of the game," Hindustan Times, May 14, 2007
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ungoogleable n. A person for whom no information appears in an Internet search engine, particularly Google. —adj. Also: unGoogleable, ungooglable, unGoogle-able.
Example Citation:
Amnemia: The loss of all memory tricks related to name recall, brought about after years of relying on Photobucket, Facebook and Google to look up all the names on the business cards one has collected. Amnemia manifests itself when one finally meets an "ungoogleable" and can be cured either by, well, learning to remember people, or more easily by snapping camphone shots of everyone one meets.—Nick Douglas, "New words for a new year," Valleywag, December 28, 2006
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I'm working both of these words into my vocabulary and I'm determined to use each of them in a professional setting.
googleability (goo.gul.uh.BIL.uh.tee) n. The ease with which information about a person can be found on an Internet search engine, particularly Google. Also: Googleability, googlability, google-ability.—googleable adj.
Example Citation:
What's your 'googleability' quotient? No clue? Well, then check it out right away because if the world's premier search engine can't trace you in less than a second, then you are a certified also-ran; or so parents of newborns in the US feel. News reports say that 'googleability' is now a primary baby-naming requirement, which means that parents want names for their children which will work well for web searches: an unusual name that might figure among the first top 10 search results.—"The name of the game," Hindustan Times, May 14, 2007
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ungoogleable n. A person for whom no information appears in an Internet search engine, particularly Google. —adj. Also: unGoogleable, ungooglable, unGoogle-able.
Example Citation:
Amnemia: The loss of all memory tricks related to name recall, brought about after years of relying on Photobucket, Facebook and Google to look up all the names on the business cards one has collected. Amnemia manifests itself when one finally meets an "ungoogleable" and can be cured either by, well, learning to remember people, or more easily by snapping camphone shots of everyone one meets.—Nick Douglas, "New words for a new year," Valleywag, December 28, 2006
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