[Publib] googling oneself on cuil

[Miriam Bobkoff]

Adri wrote:

>“I had a really strange experience with 
>it.  After playing around with it I googled 
>myself. “ – so wait did you search yourself on 
>Google (googled) or searched yourself on 
>Cuil?  And when you search the library catalog do you google it?

I think "google yourself" is a generic term, like 
kleenex and bandaid. I never liked the phrase 
"ego search", not least because it makes an 
awkward verb. :-) If I were searching for myself 
in a library catalog (which only barely might 
work, but it might), I probably would think of it as 'googling myself'.

(And yes, the cuil folks need to tweak their 
algorithms, especially the one that pulls in images.)

Miriam B.
presently librarian for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
and inordinately contented in Port Angeles
   http://oceaninview.blogspot.com/