English
Etymology 1
From googly.
Verb
google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
Etymology 2
From Google.
Noun
google (plural googles)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
search using Google
search using any comprehensive search engine
Verb
google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
- (transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “Google Search Engine: New Features”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Google Friends Mailing List, archived from the original on 9 October 1999, retrieved 6 August 2007:
- "Have fun and keep googling!"
- 2002 October 15, Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon as Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4:
- Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.
- 2002 December 13, Jennifer Lopez as Marisa, Maid In Manhattan:
- "Google it."
- 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who's Sorry Now?”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 24 June 2007, page A-19:
- Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. […]
- (transitive, by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
- (intransitive, Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- His name googles.
Translations
to search for on the Internet
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Danish
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Dutch
Verb
- first-person singular present indicative of googlen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of googlen
- imperative of googlen
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