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Etymology
Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (trademark) A particular Internet company.
- (computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
Derived terms
- de-Google
- de-Googled
- Doctor Google, Dr. Google
- FANG, FAANG
- FGI
- GAFAM
- GC
- GCal
- ghit
- GIYF, giyf
- Gmail, Gmailer
- Go
- GOOG
- googlable
- googleability, googlability
- googleable, Googleable
- Google bomb, googlebomb
- Google Doodle
- Google effect
- Google-fu
- Google is your friend
- Google machine
- Googlemania
- Googlemaniac
- Googlephone
- Googleplex
- Googler, googler
- Google stalk
- Google tax
- Googleverse
- googlewhack
- googlewhacker
- googlewhacking
- Googley
- Googlian
- Googlise, Googlize
- Googlish, googlish
- googology
- JFGI
- LMGTFY
- Noogler
- quod google
- TGIF
- unGoogleable, ungooglable
- Xoogler
- Zoogler
Translations
- In other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters.
Google
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See also
Verb
Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)
- Alternative letter-case form of google
- 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2:
- Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.
- 2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33:
- Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.
- 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29:
- I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.
- 2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:
- Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.
- 2008, Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, quoting Anne Timmons, “Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel”, in The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, New York, N.Y., London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 92, column 1:
- I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.
- 2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; […] (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23:
- We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.
- 2009, Lloyd Kaufman with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, Burlington, Mass., Abingdon, Oxon: Focal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
- There are several film festivals going on all over the world at any one time. Do some creative Google-ing and start sending your film out.
- 2010, Michael Schneider, “Companies and Airlines: Negotiation Positions – Negotiation Options”, in Roland Conrady, Martin Buck, editors, Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010, Springer, →ISBN, page 211:
- Googleing the name of your counterpart will most likely tell you even more: Facebook and the like will tell about hobbies, family etc. and hence give you valuable information on the motivational set of the person.
- 2011, Melinda Wells [pen name]: Linda Palmer, Pie à la Murder, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 113:
- He must have Googled or Binged me and found out about one of Phil Logan’s early publicity stunts where he had me suited up like a Los Angeles Dodger so his photographer could take a picture of me holding a baseball bat.
- 2013, Alan Corey, “Career Test Drive”, in The Subversive Job Search: How to Overcome a Lousy Job, Sluggish Economy, and Useless Degree to Create a Six-Figure Career, Pompton Plains, N.J.: Career Press, →ISBN, page 75:
- I Googled the company (then Binged it just to be sure), searched their job listings online, and tried to remember what job I actually applied for that generated this response.
- 2014, Lutishia Lovely, The Perfect Affair, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 212:
- So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.
- 2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:
- “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”
Translations
to search the internet using the Google search engine — see google
Etymology
Proper noun
Google (genitive Googles)
Derived terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- Google (trademark)
- Google (search engine)
Declension
| Inflection of Google (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | — | ||
| genitive | Googlen | — | |
| partitive | Googlea | — | |
| illative | Googleen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | — | |
| gen. | Googlen | ||
| genitive | Googlen | — | |
| partitive | Googlea | — | |
| inessive | Googlessa | — | |
| elative | Googlesta | — | |
| illative | Googleen | — | |
| adessive | Googlella | — | |
| ablative | Googlelta | — | |
| allative | Googlelle | — | |
| essive | Googlena | — | |
| translative | Googleksi | — | |
| abessive | Googletta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Google ?
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Google n (genitive Googles)
- Google (search engine)
- 2004, Thomas Köhre, Google: Alles finden und viele Tricks, page 9:
- Sicher haben Sie schon einmal den Ausspruch »Frag doch Google!« gehört und sich gefragt, was dieses Google eigentlich ist?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
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