Greetings, friends, and be welcomed to another newsletter from A Way with Words, public radio's show about words and language and how we use them. Riddles flew through the air during this past weekend's show, as we shared some riddles from...
Google slap n.— «When your ranking drops, 90% of the time it’s because of a SE changing it’s methodolgy for ranking sites. They are doing this because they believe it is in the best interests of their users. Some people refer to this as...
discomgooglation n.— «Now Google has become a symbol of the internet as a whole. A YouGov survey published last week found that Britons suffered from “discomgooglation”—a term used to describe how lost people feel if they...
link juice n.— «It also changed at least 99 other links to the Web sites of law-firm clients after it ran afoul of Google Inc. (GOOG) in the search giant’s ongoing efforts to crack down on a practice known as selling “link...
clownsuit engine n.— «A clownsuit engine…does an advanced Google search within specific parameters. In this case, it searches for files on one click hosts that contain the keywords the clown and the little boy type into the search...
check the boxes v. phr.— «In lobbying parlance, this is known as “checking the boxes”—meticulously informing powerful congressmen and senators about a transaction they might want to weigh in on down the road. Lobbyists live by...