Google

Etymology

A deliberate 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophones: google, googol

Proper noun

Google

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (trademark) A particular Internet company.
4. (computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.

Verb

Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)

1. 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, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, →ISBN, page 479:

     Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.

   • 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.

   • 2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, →ISBN, page 12:

     He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

   • 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.”

Etymology

From English Google.

Proper noun

Google (genitive Googles)

1. Google

Etymology

From English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡle/, [ˈɡuːɡle̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡle/, [ˈɡo̞ːɡle̞]
• Rhymes: -uːɡle

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (trademark)
2. Google (search engine)

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡu.ɡœl/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Google ?

1. Google

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl], [ˈɡuːɡl̩]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Goo‧gle

Proper noun

Google n (genitive Googles)

1. 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)