Tsaiberspace

I hearby lay claim to coining the new term “Googlesquatting”:

1. Let the record show that this term is not already in published use by anyone else (base form).
2. Googlesquat (gÅ«’gôl’skwŏt). v. goo·gle·squat·ting, v., intr. To publish or maintain a web page that shows up higher in a Google query than other arguably rightfully-higher-ranked pages.

Illustrative uses of “googlesquatting” in a sentence:

• Francis Ford Coppola, sommelier: Dammit! That POS website Tsaiberspace is googlesquatting my winery! This is rich. Beating out the FFC homepage? What’s wrong with Google?
• Boston.com staff: Dammit! This POS website Tsaiberspace is googlesquatting our reviews! Who are those people in the picture?!? And he doesn’t even review the restaurant!

Update: Boston.com has gotten their SEO game together. FFC still has not …

Update (2006-06-19): Lame. Google changes its search results based on whether or not you are signed in (presumably to tailor the results based on your previous search/clickthrough history). I’m not as important as I thought I was …