preroll n.— «Monday, Hurley, one of YouTube’s founders, appeared more open to experimenting, saying he was even considering testing what’s known as a “preroll”—showing a 15-second ad before a clip—something he had long derided...
Google jockey n.— «A Google jockey is someone who takes part in a presentation or class and surfs the Internet for web sites or resources mentioned by the presenter or terms and ideas related to the topic. These searches are displayed...
Google bowling n.— «Pick the whitehouse or something big and knock em out of the serps. We could call it Google Bowling.» —“Current Thinkng on Linking for Google” by Terry_SA Threadwatch.org Apr. 19, 2005...
flarf n.— «For the past few years some poets have approached Google as a detournement machine, using the search function as a phrase generator and assembling the results into cut-up poems. (In some circles the method and poems go by the...
flarf n.— «My own understanding of it went something like this: “Flarf” is a collage-based method which employs Google searches, specifically the partial quotes which Google “captures” from websites. In its early...
Google MD n.— «I was wondering if I could possibly have spontaneous decay in six teeth at once, and Google MD had me convinced that I had jaw cancer like Freud or Grover Cleveland.» —by Mimi Smartypants Mimi...