Egosurfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Egosurfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Egosurfing (also called vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, or simply Googling yourself) is the practice of searching for one's own given name, surname, full name, pseudonym, or screen name on a popular search engine, to see what results appear. It has become increasingly popular with the rise of popular search engines such as Google, as well as free blogging and web-hosting services. It is sometimes combined with third-party tools such as Googlefight] when several people egosurf together.

Similarly, an egosurfer is one who surfs the Internet for his own name, to see what, if any, articles appear about himself.