lazyweb

alternative LazyWeb

1. InternethumorousinformalThe Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.

   If the phrase doesn't exist, you can offer a definition, or it asks the ‘lazyweb’ for one by tweeting it.

   2011, Tim Phillips, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 175

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   Victor proves the first rule of the lazy-web ("if you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about")[…]

   2002 June 11, Matt Jones, “Make me think.”, in blackbeltjones.com, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2002

   Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.

   2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   The lazyweb hashtag is rarely used anymore—it peaked in 2008 and has been declining with increasing rapidity over time—but people still turn to Twitter when they want to outsource a question.

   2011 July 7, Nicholas Jackson, “Infographic: Twitter, Lazyweb Expose the Limits of Google”, in The Atlantic

1. Alternative letter-case form of lazyweb.

   Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.

   2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   There was another point of danah’s I wanted to respond to, but yesterday’s post had gotten quite long enough, and in any case, I had a slightly different take in mind for this, including a LazyWeb request at the end, relating to this image:[…] It's damn slow, and should in any case be either a bookmarklet (O LazyWeb, hear my plea…) […]

   2005 January 6, Clay Shirky, “Wikipedia: The nature of authority, and a LazyWeb request…”, in Corante, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2020