One interesting aspect of working with the Internet is watching the technology evolve faster than the vocabulary used to describe it. We’ve all seen new terms like “blog” and “podcast” become instantly popular, but what about technology that hasn’t even been named yet? I’m not creative enough to come up with the names, but I’ll start a list of the concepts that need naming:

• When you perform a Google search, and the answer is visible on the search results page, so you don’t even have to click one of the results.
• Variation: When you perform a Google search using your browser toolbar, and the answer is visible in the search shortcuts that appear while you type.
• Blogs that consist solely of funny pictures related to a theme (e.g., icanhascheezburger.com, cuteoverload.com and failblog.org). As my wife can tell you, there are hundreds of these!

Can you suggest a catchy name? And what other new Internet terms should I add to this list?

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