Scroogled Edit Meaning

1.

"Owned by Google", or "screwed by Google", or even "pwned by Google". The word is created by combining "screwed" and " Google". The meaning implies that Google (its search engine, Gmail, and other services) is constantly spying on its users. Coined by Cory Doctorow in his fiction-story "Scroogled", written for the RADAR magazine (www.radaronline.com).

MAYA: Now you’re a person of interest, Greg. You’re Googlestalked. Now you live your life with someone constantly looking over your shoulder. You know the mission statement, right? ’Organize the World’s Information.’ Everything. Give it five years, we’ll know how many turds were in the bowl before you flushed. Combine that with automated suspicion of anyone who matches a statistical picture of a bad guy and you’re–

GREG: Scroogled.

MAYA: Totally.

See screw, screwed, google, scroogle, owned, pwned

2.

What happens when Google Mapstakes you to a trailer park with a sign that read "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again." instead of the Starbucks you had been searching for.

This term can be used any time Google Mapsgives you bad driving directions.

So after drivingaround the same block for twenty minutes in the ghetto and nearly getting shot, I realized that there was no Barnes and Noble. I'd been painfully scroogled."

See lost, directions, misguided, accurate