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  • verb Present participle of dogfood.

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Examples

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

  • "At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding," wrote Mario Querioz, the company's London-based vice president of product management.

    Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

  • "At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding," wrote Mario Querioz, the company's London-based vice president of product management.

    Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • "At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding," wrote Mario Querioz, the company's London-based vice president of product management.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    Web AddiCT(s); 2009

  • "At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding," wrote Mario Querioz, the company's London-based vice president of product management.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

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  • to eat your own dogfood is to run production systems on beta code. you find and fix errors faster that way, so the story goes.

    if you're really brave you run on alpha code.

    see also bootstrapping

    December 12, 2006

  • I've heard dogfooding used particularly in Redmond Washington.

    December 12, 2006