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What do you call social network accounts owned by the same person?
Sometimes called a sock puppet account. Lexico has
2 A false online identity, typically created by a person or group in order to promote their own opinions or views.
Sock puppets are banned in many ...
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Why is the Internet being considered a person now?
The internet is not being considered a person.
This is simply a case where "the internet" is used as shorthand for "the people on the internet". It is common in English. We see the ...
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
To search [...] online would be my choice. In your example sentence it would read:
I searched for the words "cute kitty" online and found lots of results.
...or...
I searched online for the ...
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What do you call social network accounts owned by the same person?
Also, alternate account, or “alt”. Wiktionary has:
(Internet, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.
1996, "Jonobie D. Baker", Survey of MUSHers. (on newsgroup rec.games.mud.tiny)
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What does "drop" mean in this context?
Is this the dictionary definition that comes the closest to the usage in that Meta post?
No, the dictionary definition that comes closest is 1b in the same Merriam-Webster entry:
a minute quantity ...
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Correct verb to go to a website - open, surf, navigate?
In that example, I would simply say "go to".
I would use "navigate" for something which required a series of steps - e.g. if someone is uploading a file they might "navigate&...
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Correct verb to go to a website - open, surf, navigate?
Visit the website. The OED defines the word visit, in this context, as meaning "access and view (a website or web page)".
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
Actually to google is becoming a general term to refer to any search engine:
verb (used without object)
(often lowercase) to use a search engine such as Google to find information, a website address,...
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Technical term for Internet-like network?
A private network that is accessible only to the employees of an organisation is called an intranet.
Definition: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/intranet
a computer network with restricted access,...
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
In the days of the web before Google existed (mid to late '90s), we just called it "searching" or "performing a web search" (web search would be the common noun). Doing so usually entailed using 3 or ...
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
As in:
What did your search reveal?
On Wikipedia there is a whole subsection of SEARCHING devoted to Computing Technology.
Computing technology
Search algorithm, including keyword ...
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
I used to use look up
to try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer
Macmillian
And, this is the phrase taught on Sesame Street (...
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On the usage of POV in social media
There is a shift at least in its connotation. As a 'technical term' it was mainly used in literature and film until recently:
"Point of view" existed long before teenagers took over TikTok ...
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What do you call social network accounts owned by the same person?
They are certainly not bots. As this Wkipedia article explains a bot is either completely or largely automated and is used to make a certain product or point of view look more popular than it actually ...
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Where does the expression “spill the tea” come from?
The expression appears to have originated in American black drag culture:
It appears that T, also spelled tea, had a double-edged meaning in black drag culture. It could refer to a hidden truth, ...
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What is the proper name to call "non-developer bloggers"?
The option that comes to mind, focusing on what they actually do, is content creators. This is a pretty common term these days.
Here are a few examples:
The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Content ...
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Technical term for Internet-like network?
Wide area Network or WAN.
From Wikipedia:
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance. Wide area networks are often ...
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Technical term for Internet-like network?
An internet is any TCP/IP network. When used within a single organisation, it is called an intranet. The Internet is simply the public TCP/IP network that hosts the World Wide Web.
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
In more formal contexts, one can perform an internet/online search/query without ever mentioning Google:
We performed an online search to identify relevant conference proceedings, journal articles, ...
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"Referer" or "referrer"
Wiki
The misspelling of referrer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification. The misspelling was set in ...
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In "download", where does the "down" direction come from?
Initially, "download" and "upload" were used in aviation, especially by the US military. "Download" meant to remove items such as weapons from the aircraft, while "upload" meant to load items onto ...
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Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a particular search engine?
If I'm doing extensive googling for something at work, I usually refer to it as researching. As in:
I researched cute kittens online and several sites agree that torbies are the cutest.
Research ...
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What word or phrase should be used to describe this website line?
It’s a breadcrumb.
Quoting Wikipedia :
A breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail is a graphical control element frequently used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages. It allows users to ...
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Correct verb to go to a website - open, surf, navigate?
I prefer to use the word 'browse' when writing documentation. The user is using a web browser, so feels like the verb should be 'browse'
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Blogosphere: what is it?
I think you are overthinking the idea. The definitions you give, taken together, should give you a good idea of the concept of "the blogosphere".
If they don't the OED may be of help to you ...
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What is the proper name to call "non-developer bloggers"?
Focus on labelling your content rather than who may be viewing it. Idioms such as “101” or “best practise” may be appropriate.
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What is meant by the verb "ship" in this context?
'Shipping' has now become a jargon among the 'twitterati' community for 'relashionshipping' rather than shipping a parcel.
Read from Business Insider India:
"If you see someone on Twitter or ...
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Who invented "dooblidoo"?
This first appears on WheezyWaiter and was popularized in part by vlogbrothers. Quoted from Urban Dictionary:
This term refers to the video description box on YouTube.
This box, which contains ...
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Usage of the noun "aesthetic" to refer to a set of artistic principles and motifs
Wiktionary's definition (3) of aesthetic has a lot in common with definition (2) of aesthetic as a noun that appears in Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003):
aesthetic also ...
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