What Does it Mean to Vanity Search?
A vanity search may be more commonly known as ego surfing. This is a term that may have been coined by Internet mogul, Sean Carton. When you vanity search, you are essentially using a search engine to look up yourself. Other names for this practice include self-googling, googling yourself, ego searching or autogoogling. These names reference the common practice of using Google to perform this search. If you’re new to the Internet, it can be interesting to vanity search, to see if anyone knows who you are. Of course, what you may see at first is a lot of people who have the same name as you. Once you start to blog, post, or put information up on places like Facebook, a vanity search may reveal more pages that refer to you. Sometimes the term is used derogatively to describe those people who are obsessed with seeing their names pull up on a search engine. If your name ends up with thousands of results, it can be a boost to ego, hence the term ego surfing. It can raise your self-esteem wh
