What is Googlebaiting?
1.
(v) The practice of strategically using an oblique reference within your online profile, chat client, group tag or status message-du-jour, the understanding and appreciation of which is likely to require an extensive google search.
The cyberquivalent of
officially tallied Wit and Coup scores are dependent on the following conditions:
1. that the reference is sufficiently orthogonal to anything like "common knowledge"
2. that the particular point of the obscure reference is something cool
Extra scoring awarded if:
a) the reference constitutes a double entendre
b) the reference means something different to different people
Not to be confused with
Duran's new status message - "Oh Oh Sugar Spell It Out" 9:05 AM Monday
me: Are you telling the world that you're secretly a gay tween with a deep, dark soul, a hot twin, and thickly calloused fingertips?
me: Or are are you just googlebaiting me?
Sent at 9:26 AM on Monday
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