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English
Etymology
ego + scan
Noun
egoscan (plural egoscans)
- (dated, fandom slang) A brief search of a publication for one's name.
1996 January 19, Fred A. Levy Haskell, “Re: E-mail and Posting”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:*blush* I peek my nose in to r.a.sf.f for the first time in ages, and get a BINGO on the egoscan! Wowie zowie!
2005 December 10, Chris Garcia, “ChatBack”, in Vegas Fandom Weekly, volume 2, number 2 (whole number 56), page 11:Nice to see my article on running into all the wonderful Vegans down in LA. I must admit to doing an egoscan to see how it turned out, and of course, it was wonderfully done.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:egoscan.
Verb
egoscan (third-person singular simple present egoscans, present participle egoscanning, simple past and past participle egoscanned)
- (dated, fandom slang) To quickly search a publication for one's name.
1975, Elliot Weinstein, The Fillostrated Fan Dictionary, page 43:Egoscan: To check through a fanzine for references [...] concerning oneself.
1996 April 18, Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, “Re: Who Reads Letters Columns?”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:Every now and then I egoscan, as more and more people have been asking my permission to use excerpts from my reviews in their letters column.
2013 March, Robert Runte, “Left-Over Pieces”, in Broken Toys, number 14, page 10:Bit disappointed by the lack of mention in this issue. I haven't actually read any issue of Broken Toys since my own letter in #2 (the rest remains on my 'to be read' shelf, which I have only recently realized is short for "to be read when I retire") but thanks to the wonders of the "find" command, took the liberty of egoscanning the last ten issues and did not find myself mentioned once.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:egoscan.
Usage notes
This term originally referred to reading a fanzine but has since come to refer to using search engines too.
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