Most Creative Word of 2007: Googlegänger
Trivia January 5th, 2008 - By Haochi
The American Dialect Society voted Googlegänger - “person with your name who shows up when you google (sic) yourself” - as the winner in the “Most Creative” category of its 18th Word of the Year event. Googlegänger was also nominated for Word of the Year, but was defeated by “subprime” (79 to 2 votes).
Despite winning the Most Creative category, Googlegänger is not widely used - a Google search for the word turns up a mere 3000 results. I personally haven’t seen or heard of that word before.
Remember the “Google Me” movie?
UPDATE: Ha, this is funny. “I have a Googlegänger, Chris Abraham the Director from Canada. We fought over top Google dog for years but now I pwn him.” [Marketing Conversation]
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January 9th, 2008 at 3:02 am
Hi there,
I think Googlegänger is related to the German word “Doppelgänger”.
This could be translated as “person who looks like your twin. Usually used for important people who act like the VIP”.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Some people have a fascination with their Googlegangers. Perhaps seeing them as akin to alter egos in another reality, or multiple egos in this reality. Given this, perhaps the death of a Googleganger is worthy of reflection. Did you just lose some part of yourself?
What is that person? How about a GOOGLEGEIST. This term currently has minor other meanings. But I posit that it be imbued with this meaning.
Wes Boudville