Are you Goofling, Goggling or Gooping?

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Posted in Technology on January 23, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Do you ever get those times when you’re idling away time at the Google search bar trying to think of interesting things to look up ? Come on, admit it, we all do don’t we? Even my technology dis-interested partner does it - I have a feeling that it may become a national pastime - then maybe even a quiz show panel game.

I wondered if there is a name for it - I know about the word futzing which describes playful time interacting with a device such as a computer but I wondered if there is something particular to search engine input forms. They always seem so tempting with their little flashing cursors in the search box. So I typed into Google the following search phrase (without the quotes) “idling time searching google” which delivered around 1.8m results and didn’t seem to have the answer I was looking for. I then got a little more creative trying words like Goofling, Goggling and Gooping with no luck. It’s a shame because I really thought I was onto something with Gooping. I kept trying and couldn’t find anything but then real life kicked in - maybe next time!

I still haven’t found an answer but I did realise after a while that I was doing exactly what I was trying to find the name for! (for the employers out there, don’t panic - I am on a days holiday!)

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