Comments on: My doppelgoogler http://keithmansfield.co.uk/2008/04/13/my-doppelgoogler/ A blog from the author of the Johnny Mackintosh stories Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:49:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Twisted Wheel at the ICA « Keith Mansfield http://keithmansfield.co.uk/2008/04/13/my-doppelgoogler/#comment-22 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:27:55 +0000 http://keithmansfield.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-22 [...] to warn them off the name. Try typing “Opera House” into a search engine – they have so many doppelgooglers it’s probably the worst band name to do a web search on since (the presumably defunct) [...]

]]> By: keithmansfield http://keithmansfield.co.uk/2008/04/13/my-doppelgoogler/#comment-17 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:45:55 +0000 http://keithmansfield.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-17 Clearly there can be only one Anna Faherty! Though perhaps you are exhibiting signs of schizogooglia, having multiple online personalities?

]]> By: Anna Faherty http://keithmansfield.co.uk/2008/04/13/my-doppelgoogler/#comment-14 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:19:30 +0000 http://keithmansfield.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-14 I love the ‘doppelgoogler’ term. As well as being a more correct version of the pleasingly alliterative ‘googleganger’ its similarlity to the word Doppler makes it sound like a time-travelling baddie from Dr Who.

Sadly, googling myself turns up, well, myself (mostly). But searching in google books reveals not only my hidden past but a bit of a split personality. As a one-time commissioning editor, all my past aknowledgements from authors appear – half thanking me for attributes like ‘faith’, ‘patience’ and ‘support’; half describing me ‘talking us into it’ or my ‘relentless pursuit of the finished manuscript’. Anyone searching for me couldn’t really be sure whether I’m nice or nasty. Perhaps this phenomenon could become known as a ‘doublegoogler’; one who has two (or more) personalities depicted in cyberspace?

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