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Trademark.

the brand name for a leading internet search engine, founded in 1998.

verb (used with object), Goo·gled, Goo·gling.

(often lowercase) to search the internet for information about (a person, topic, etc.): We googled the new applicant to check her background.

verb (used without object), Goo·gled, Goo·gling.

(often lowercase) to use a search engine such as Google to find information, a website address, etc., on the internet.

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Origin of Google

First recorded in 1998; after mathematical term googol

historical usage of Google

Founded in 1998, the website Google.com has become such an institution that in its short existence, it has changed not only the way we process the endless data found online, but also the way we think and talk about the internet.
The term google itself is a creative spelling of googol, a number equal to 10 to the 100th power, or more colloquially, an unfathomable number. Googol was coined in the 1930s and is attributed to the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
Soon after Google was created, the trademarked company name became a popular verb. People were “googling” all sorts of information, including their own names. When users google themselves, unless their names are absurdly rare, they may find their “googlegangers” (a portmanteau word combining “google” and “doppelgänger”), or their namesakes, listed in the Google search results.
A whole new industry has sprung up around Google, including the new field of search-engine optimization or SEO, which works to boost the ranking of a name or term in Google and other search-engine results. In 2005, the newly-minted term Google bomb became popular, to describe the intentional skewing of Google search results by creating links to misleading web pages. Whether we like it or not, we now live in a Google-centric world.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH Google

goggle, Google , googol

Words nearby Google

goof-up, goofus, goofy, goofy-footer, goog, Google, Google bomb, google-bombing, Google Glass, googlewhack, googly

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How to use Google in a sentence

  • The UI notes that you’ll be turning off all apps, the Google Assistant, and personalized recommendations.

  • Research teams will have access to a questionnaire that allows them to assess their projects for risk and navigate review, and Johnson predicted that a majority of papers would not require additional vetting by Google.

  • So the 23-year-old student, Maxence Abela, and his Google software engineer father, Jerome Abela, set to work solving the puzzle.

  • If your phone or tablet uses Google’s operating system, activate a hotspot by going to Settings, then Network & internet, and tapping Hotspot & tethering.

  • For example, in 2017, Google sister company Sidewalk Labs procured the rights to develop Toronto’s Quayside waterfront into a sensor-laden smart neighborhood.

  • But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.

  • Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.

  • Google itself has taken a break and put plans for mass production on hold.

  • If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.

  • Look, right now, in Africa, why are we using Instagram and Facebook and Google search?

  • There was nothing on there you couldn’t find with Google, of course, but I didn’t think that would count in my favor.

  • This eBook was prepared from page images made available by Google.

  • This text was compared to scans of the pamphlet that Google has helpfully made available.

  • The Google Print source suffers from numerous gaps in the text.

  • The Baby nodded her head and began, “M-m-m-google—google-goo!”

British Dictionary definitions for Google

noun trademark

a popular search engine on the internet

verb (without a cap)

to search for (something on the internet) using a search engine

to check (the credentials of someone) by searching for websites containing his or her name

Word Origin for Google

C20: a play on googol

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Googlenoun

    a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user’s search

  2. googleverb

    search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine

    «He googled the woman he had met at the party»; «My children are googling all day»

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.2 / 6 votes

  1. Googleverb

    To search for, using Google (or, rarely, another Internet search engine).

  2. Googleverb

    To investigate, using Google.

    She Googled everybody she dated as soon as she could.

  3. Googleverb

    To search on the Internet using Google.

  4. Googlenoun

    A particular Internet company.

  5. Googlenoun

    A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.

  6. Googlenoun

    A service mark owned by w:Google Inc..

  7. Etymology: From googly.

WikipediaRate this definition:3.8 / 5 votes

  1. Google

    Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook.Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet’s leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet’s Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
    The company’s rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google’s core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most valuable brand in the world as of 2017, but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google’s mission statement is «to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful». The company’s unofficial slogan «Don’t be evil» was removed from the company’s code of conduct around May 2018, but reinstated by July 31, 2018.

FreebaseRate this definition:4.6 / 8 votes

  1. Google

    Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits derive from AdWords.
    Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was «to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful», and its unofficial slogan was «Don’t be evil». In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California.
    Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google’s core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Google Chrome OS for a specialized type of netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its high-end Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012. In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.

The New Hacker’s DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 4 votes

  1. google

    [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, http://www.google.com. Google is
    highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is
    so uncannily effective that many hackers consider it to have rendered other
    search engines effectively irrelevant. The name ‘google’ has
    additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a
    mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as
    ‘googol’ by a mathematician’s nine-year-old nephew.

CrunchBaseRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

  1. Google

    Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information. Google has also made strong moves into the web-based apps space with acquisitions of Jotspot (documents), 2Web Technologies (spreadsheets) and Zenter (presentations). The company has also made a splash with the acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick and Feedburner.

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  1. GOOGLE

    Misspelling of the word «googol» which is: 1 followed by (100 zeroes) something like (10 to the 99th power) 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The amount of thing expected it could be found on Google.

    1 followed by (100 zeroes) something like (10 to the 99th power). 10.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000

    Submitted by anonymous on June 17, 2019  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GOOGLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GOOGLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of GOOGLE in a Sentence

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    Get more traffic and sales for only
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    Call or Text David @ 210-493-6193
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    David Schipper, CEO
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    Est. 1998
    5 Stars on Google
    BBB A+

    P.S. Why pay marketing companies 1,000 a month?
    Why pay 2,000 a month? (The going rates in the midwest and coastal states)

  2. Nicole Ozer:

    Face recognition technology gives governments the unprecedented power to spy on us, we urge Microsoft and other companies to join IBM, Google, and Amazon in moving towards the right side of history.

  3. James Scott:

    Manufacturing consent begins by weaponizing the meme and utilizing the censorship algorithms of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

  4. Tim Squirrell:

    The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there’s always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this… Once it’s out in the ether, it’s impossible to take everything down.

  5. Emma Haruka Iwao:

    We keep investing in Google Cloud and Google Cloud gets even better over time, hopefully we can do an even bigger computation in the future.

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googleable

adjective

or Googleable

The Massachusetts trio may not have picked an easily Googleable name …


—Leah Greenblatt

Did you know?

The verb google and the noun googol are commonly confused because they have similar pronunciations. Google is the word that is more common to us now, and so it is sometimes mistakenly used as a noun to refer to the number 10100. That number is a googol, so named by Milton Sirotta, the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, who was working with large numbers like 10100. Google, on the other hand, is the name of a search engine as well as a verb that refers to searching the Internet using the Google search engine. (The search engine’s name was inspired by the number: the founders of Google chose the name to reflect their mission “to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.”) You can remember that the number is spelled googol by remembering that a googol has lots of o’s.

Two related words, googolplex and googleplex, are also commonly confused. A googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol of zeros; the Googleplex is the Mountain View, California headquarters of Google.

Example Sentences

Then where are they going, if not to Faulkner and Achebe and Naipaul?  … To the movies; to television (hours and hours); to Googling obsessively (hours and hours); to blogging and emailing and text messaging …


—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s, April 2007


The Sports Gal and I delayed dinner plans so I could analyze the replays like a police chief. Eventually she realized we weren’t leaving the house, so she made herself a sandwich and headed upstairs to Google divorce lawyers.


—Bill Simmons, ESPN, 6 Dec. 2004


Have you ever googled yourself, maybe late at night, when nobody else was around? It’s OK, you can admit it—everybody does it.


—Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News, 17 Apr. 2004

Recent Examples on the Web

Tom has googled enough for the both of us.


—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023




Or to google the parents of the bat mitzvah girl?


—Allan Ripp, WSJ, 20 May 2021




People are going to google you and their going to find a strong brand, a weak one or nothing.


—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023




Analyzing Google search data can also provide a head start on predicting an outbreak—people often google their symptoms before going to the doctor.


—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022




Reviews are still coming in, and some of them are not glowing (google it for yourself).


—Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2020




Once in the big city, and not having much by way of industry connections, Aaryan would google for acting jobs and commute for hours to get to auditions.


—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2022




Look at your Facebook page and your LinkedIn profile and google yourself.


—Adam Stott, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022




The best work around would be to google the person’s name and city which should provide the address, then use MySmartRenter.com to run the report for safety.


—Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022


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Etymology

Google, trademark for a search engine

First Known Use

2000, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of google was
in 2000

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This article is about the verb. For the use of the verb in cricket, see Googly. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).

Look up Google in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The act of using the Google search engine is known colloquially as googling.

Owing to the dominance of the Google search engine,[1] to google has become a transitive verb.[2] The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web using the Google search engine.[3] The American Dialect Society chose it as the «most useful word of 2002».[4] It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006,[5] and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.[6]

Etymology[edit]

The first recorded usage of google was as a gerund, on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: «Have fun and keep googling!».[7] Its earliest known use as an explicitly transitive verb on American television was in the «Help» episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (October 15, 2002), when Willow asked Buffy, «Have you googled her yet?».[8]

To prevent genericizing and potential loss of its trademark, Google has discouraged use of the word as a verb, particularly when used as a synonym for general web searching. On February 23, 2003,[9] Google sent a cease and desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of Word Spy, a website that tracks neologisms.[10] In an article in The Washington Post, Frank Ahrens discussed the letter he received from a Google lawyer that demonstrated «appropriate» and «inappropriate» ways to use the verb «google».[11]

It was reported that, in response to this concern, lexicographers for the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary lowercased the actual entry for the word, google, while maintaining the capitalization of the search engine in their definition, «to use the Google search engine to seek online information» (a concern which did not deter the Oxford editors from preserving the history of both «cases»).[12] On October 25, 2006, Google sent a request to the public requesting that «You should please only use ‘Google’ when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services.»[13]

Ungoogleable is something that cannot be «googled» – i.e. it cannot be easily found using a web search engine, especially Google.[14] If a word or phrase is ungoogleable, it means it cannot be googled. In 2013, the Swedish Language Council attempted to include the Swedish version of the word («ogooglebar«) in its list of new words, but Google objected to the definition not being specifically related to Google, and the council was forced to briefly remove it to avoid a legal confrontation with Google.[15][16]

See also[edit]

  • grep
  • Ogooglebar, Swedish for «ungoogleable»
  • Photoshop (verb), a similar neologism referring to digital photo editing

References[edit]

  1. ^ Burns, Enid (June 19, 2007). «Top 10 Search Providers, April 2007». SearchEngineWatch.com. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved August 11, 2007.
  2. ^ «Google — Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary». Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  3. ^ «How Google Became a Verb». The Lingua File — The Language Blog. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  4. ^ «2002 Words of the Year». American Dialect Society. January 13, 2003. Retrieved August 11, 2007.
  5. ^ Bylund, Anders. «To Google or Not to Google.» The Motley Fool. July 5, 2006. Retrieved on March 28, 2007.
  6. ^ Harris, Scott D. (July 7, 2006). «Dictionary adds verb: to google». San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved July 7, 2006.
  7. ^ Page, Larry (July 8, 1998). «Google Search Engine: New Features». Google Friends Mailing List. Archived from the original on October 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
  8. ^ Arthur, Charles (2012). Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet. Kogan Page Publishers. p. 48. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
  9. ^ McFedries, Paul (February 23, 2003). «Google trademark concerns». American Dialect Society Mailing List. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 11, 2007.
  10. ^ Duffy, Jonathan. «Google calls in the ‘language police’.» BBC News. June 20, 2003. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
  11. ^ Frank Ahrens (August 5, 2006). «So Google Is No Brand X, but What Is ‘Genericide’?». The Washington Post. Retrieved August 5, 2006.
  12. ^ Noon, Chris. «Brin, Page See ‘Google’ Take Its Place In Dictionary.» Forbes. July 6, 2006. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
  13. ^ Krantz, Michael (October 25, 2006). «Do you «Google?»«. The Official Google Blog. Retrieved August 11, 2007.
  14. ^ «Who, What, Why: What is ‘ungoogleable’?». BBC News Magazine. BBC. March 27, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  15. ^ Fanning, Sean (March 26, 2013). «Google gets ungoogleable off Sweden’s new word list». BBC News. BBC. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  16. ^ Williams, Rob (March 26, 2013). «‘Ungoogleable’ removed from list of Swedish words after row over definition with Google: California based search engine giant asked Swedish to amend definition». The Independent. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
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Definitions of Google

  1. noun

    a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user’s search

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    search engine

    a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)

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