What is critical here is the reason for someone searching their own name on the internet. If someone is famous, it is important that they constantly are aware of public feedback about them. These days, the internet permits celebritties to respond to comments. Such a person may be said to be:
"Scanning internet submissions about themselves."
On the other hand, someone may simply be interested in any entry about themselves and may randomly be, 'searching for internet entries about themselves.'
その人が自分の名前を検索している目的が重要です。有名人は世間からの評価などを重要としています。
最近、有名人はコメントやメッセージの返事をインターネットですることができます。
そのことを："Scanning internet submissions about themselves."と言います。
単純に興味があるため自分の名前を検索する場合は'searching for internet entries about themselves.'です。
Massaging his ego.
- When someone is basically trying to be so "up & proud of them selves. In other words being vain.
That is very vain. He is very vain.
How sad.
- either way when someone feels that they have to massage their ego, you can use sarcasm to counter it.
Massaging his ego.
- 誰かが基本的に自分のことをとても誇りに思っている。
言い換えれば、うぬぼれているということです。
That is very vain. He is very vain. How sad.
- どの方法も、誰かをおだてる時にあなたは皮肉を使ってそれに対応することができます。
ego search/vanity searching -This term is also used in English.It is the practice of searching for one's own name on a popular search engine in order to review the results.
Stroking his ego.- If your stroke your own ego it means you purposely fish for compliments from other people to reassure yourself that they are in fact good looking and/or good at a certain subject.
ego search/vanity searching -自分の名前をインターネットで検索すること。
Stroking his ego.- 他人が自分の長所を言っているのを探す事で自分に自信を持つようにすること。
My brother was most upset when his vanity search showed no results whatsoever!
A vanity search or self googling is a celebrity originated phenomenon...
Many media personalities search themselves to see how many google references
they have acquired ..I feel its a rather sad attempt to boost their frail egos ;-))
"A vanity search" （自分の名前を検索すること）や自分自身をググることは有名人がよく行うことです。
多くのメディア関係者はどれだけ多くの検索結果が得られるかを見るために検索します。
つかの間のエゴを高めるためという悲しい試みです。
Your ego is your feeling of self importance or how good you are so if you keep looking at your own profile you are trying to make yourself feel good this is called 'egosearching' or 'egosurfing' meaning to boost your ego by suring the net and searching their profile
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