The Google Words
Arising across the net are a range of words that are beginning to be used more frequently -- all connected to Google. There are Googling (20,000 uses), Googler (3,250 uses), and even Googled (12,500) [as in I have been Googled -- meaning that the GoogleBot has come onto my site.]
What is more interesting to me, however, are words to do with studies of things Google. Such as Googlology and Googlosophy each used about six times only online so far. No one has really attempted an explanation of each; rather each has used the term in a rather intuitive fashion. So here goes a definition for each:
GOOGLOLOGY
The art and science of Googlology refers to the technical knowledge identifying the workings of Google. This study is akin to Geology, where Googlology is setting down a description of exactly the interactions between Google and websites, seachers and websites and everything in between. As with other sciences there is a lot of guess work, as well as a lot of experimentation to prove a point or to demonstrate a result.
GOOGLOSOPHY
The Theories of Googlosophy include primarily a description of the belief system underlying the organization of the text of Google, the uses of the text and the ways in which people are represented and ordered in that text. The Google Coporation is in the business of constructing a very public text which many millions of people read. That text is one of the keys to understanding and interacting with the web. The theories of decision making in composing that text, the equity of the system in representing peoples equally, explanations that provide a gloss of way of uderstanding the world constructed by Google, all have to do with Googlosophy.
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