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I am not the sum total of my search queries

A linear algebra reference to the Excel SUMPRODUCT() function, known coloquially as SUMTOTAL, and that Google search queries or Facebook Marketplace clickstream data from 10 years ago is being used to make judgements about you today.

May also be applied to text message content, telephone call verbatims, click stream data, IEMI GPS location data data from cell-towers, and lists of contacts in cloud storage.
Engineer from some latest tech startup having bevvies at The End-Up in SF leans over to an obviously NSA guy: Hey bro, you like my new t-shirt? NSA dude sees in big print "I am not the sum total of my search queries" then runs.
by CompSciFutures May 25, 2023
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Advanced Search Warrior

An advanced search warrior is a kind of clout-chaser on social media, most typically Twitter, who uses the advanced search function to find everything a person has ever tweeted/posted through keywords and posts it out of context in order to cast them in a bad light.

Occasionally this is done to highlight serious statements/opinions and is actually fair criticism, but it's often used dishonestly to make false comparisons in order to paint someone as a hypocrite, or just to take cheap shots at people to get loads of likes during a dog-pile, possibly not even making any sense in the process.

It often accompanies screenshots with captions like "Dis you?" or is used in L memes.
"Oh look, he's found that edgy joke I made in 2016 while I was drunk and is using it against me in an unrelated discussion, he must be an advanced search warrior."
by Veinmire December 26, 2021
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Search history

The system that can get you arrested or grounded for looking up illegal stuff
1. “I hate how the search history got my career ruined by being arrested…”

2. “I can’t go anywhere cause I’m grounded due to my mom seeing my search history…”
by TheShidGames May 19, 2023
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search trap

writing vulgar searches on a search engine then writing insults or "tricked you" for the purpose of tricking your friends
writing "porn" on a search engine, then typing p i got you is a search trap
by pranko March 23, 2010
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search washing

Creating a highly searched bizarre but innocuous virally popular 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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safe search

the only thing in existence that can stop you from being horny on your computer, phone, or other stuff
dont turn off safe search if you dont want to be horny
by someone else thats not u March 23, 2021
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Reese-search

Phony scientific study/experimentation that merely involves pigging out on peanut butter cups and other bright-orange-wrappered chocolates.
Reese-search can also loosely be used to sarcastically/disgustedly refer to Mickey-Mouse R&D projects that merely involve loafing/goofing off, wasting time, recreating, needlessly/inefficiently consuming costly/scarce resources, etc. Two prime examples would be mattress-testing (i.e., getting paid to merely nap for extended periods), or the Red Green Show's infamous character Bob Stuyvesant's claiming that his impromptu solo golf-games are serious environmental studies.
by QuacksO March 3, 2019
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