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- 1 A particular Internet company.
"Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB)."
- 2 Google Search, a search engine operated by the company of the same name; the most popular search engine and most-visited website worldwide.
"He did some research on Google for his history project."
- 1 An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine. Internet, informal
"Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood."
- 2 A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine. Internet, dated, informal
"The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word."
- 1 Misspelling of googol. Internet, alt-of, informal, misspelling
- 1 To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”). transitive
- 2 To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine. Internet, informal, transitive
"Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends."
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of google. alt-of
"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."
- 4 search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine wordnet
- 5 Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly. intransitive
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- 6 To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine. Internet, broadly, informal, transitive
"I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet."
- 7 Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly. intransitive
- 8 To be locatable in a search of the Internet. Internet, informal, intransitive
"His name googles."
Etymology
Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
See googol.
An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
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