Tag Archive for: ‘spagger’

What’s a ‘spagger?’… (Google’s no help)

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Google rarely fails me, especially when it comes to something as trivial as delivering the definition of a word or slang.

Yet fail me Google did this morning.

And, coincidentally, it did so in relation to an email from my kids’ middle school carrying the subject line: “Google Night for Parents.” That email begins:

Need a better way to plan the next team spagger? Looking for an easy photo sharing system? Eager to learn how to get more out of your free Gmail account?

Wait, plan the next what? What’s a spagger?

Naturally, I Google “What’s a spagger?”

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Network World Paul McNamara

Google gets its ‘spagger’ on

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A post yesterday addressed an unusual failure on the part of Google to provide me with a definition for a word – slang, actually — with which I was thoroughly unfamiliar: spagger.

Turns out, no thanks to Google, that it’s shorthand for “spaghetti dinner.”

The post ended with me noting: “Someone needs to tell Google.”

Someone – or more likely, something – did so.

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As you can see, yesterday’s post is now the No. 2 result delivered for a search on spagger, right below the Urban Dictionary’s definition, which was not applicable to my quest.

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Network World Paul McNamara