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search washing

Creating a highly publicized and searched bizarre but innocuous event to hide search results for previous highly publicized and searched bad behavior.
Why did Papa John create a tik-tok doing the dougie with pizza and a capuchin monkey?!?
He's search washing from when he said the N-word in a board meeting. He's trying to bury the search visibility for that incident so he can start a new pizza company.
by cynicus maxiumus December 10, 2021
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Search Google or Type a URL

1. what people search when they are bored on google.
2. what it says in the search bar for google.
1.
P: im bored
P: *types search google or type a url

2.
The google home page: Search google or type a url.
P2: No :)
by potatopot99 October 17, 2022
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why am i searching this up

because you wanted to lol
why am i searching this up -me, 2 seconds ago
by urban.ass March 2, 2024
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Search Bar

What you just used to get here
using a search bar to get to search bar 🔍
by floofycat176 September 25, 2025
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Gopher Search

Gopher lets you search for resources using menus. It originated at the University of Minnesota which has (as you guessed it) a gopher for a mascot. Insted of accessing with the adress of the domain, you select any entry in a gopher menu and like the human "gofers' of the world, Gopher goes out for the material you want. Gopher is like a regular library subject catalog and it will search for the holdings of many libraries for your subject.
gopher fatty.law.cornell.edu which is the Cornell Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School.

edu - educational institute

other domain adresses are as follows:
com - commercial and buisness
gov - government institutions
mil - military institutions
net - network recorces
org - other organizations

If you're confused thus still on how gopher searches operate. See your system administrator, media specialist, brilliant friend or librarian for help!
by Gophergeanspeachykeens November 6, 2012
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random searching

Random search (RS) is a family of numerical optimization methods that do not require the gradient of the problem to be optimized and RS can hence be used on functions that are not continuous or differentiable. Such optimization methods are also known as direct-search, derivative-free, or black-box methods.

The name, random search, is attributed to Rastrigin who made an early presentation of RS along with basic mathematical analysis. RS works by iteratively moving to better positions in the search-space which are sampled from a hypersphere surrounding the current position.
I was random searching through Netflix for a movie to watch.
by SlateTadpole27 June 18, 2014
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Search Engine Echo Chamber

noun

The black hole you accidentally wander into while trying to fact-check something, only to emerge convinced that googling “how to walk on the sun” is totally reasonable. Every click just proves the last wrong thing you read… because algorithms don’t care about truth.
“I went in to check if cats really rule the internet and three hours later I was in a full-blown search engine echo chamber convinced they secretly run the government.”
by APedant November 25, 2025
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