[WikiEN-l] Googlebomb

Sat Jan 28 01:11:31 UTC 2006

On 28/01/06, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> >>>>I'm pretty pleased with how WP:Shortcuts google.
> >
> > I see. I think that's the first time I've seen "google" used as an
> > intransitive verb. :)
>
> Intransitive?  It appears to me that "NPOV or 3rr" is the object of the
> verb "google" in that fragment....

Looking back, I think he was referring to the original message (as
quoted above) - rather than talking about "[a person] googling [a
search term]", SV talked about "[a search term] googling"
(intransitively); specifically, "googling well", meaning something
like "showing up well in Google".

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Rowan Collins BSc
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