English
Etymology
An alteration of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
Proper noun
- A particular Internet company.
- (computing) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
Derived terms
- Doctor Google
- FGI
- GIYF
- giyf
- googlability
- googlable
- googleable
- Googleable
- Google bomb
- googlebomb
- Google Doodle
- Google Library
- Googlemania
- Googlemaniac
- Googleplex
- Google Print
- Googler
- googler
- googles
- Google Scholar
- Google tax
- googlewhack
- googlewhacker
- googlewhacking
- googlewhore
- Googlian
- Googlise
- googlish
- Googlize
- JFKGI
- Noogler
- quod google
- ungooglable
- unGoogleable
- Xoogler
Translations
Google (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
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Danish
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl], [ˈɡuːɡl̩]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Goo‧gle
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡu.ɡoɫ/, /ˈɡu.ɡow/
Usage notes
When referring to the search engine the noun is often treated as masculine, when referring to the company itself as feminine.[1]
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