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[edit] Etymology
The company was named after a mispelling of googol, one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Proper noun
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A particular Internet company.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (computing) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
- A service mark owned by w:Google Inc..
[edit] Verb
Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling, simple past and past participle Googled)
- (transitive) To search for, using Google (or, rarely, another Internet search engine).
- (transitive) To investigate, using Google.
- She Googled everybody she dated as soon as she could.
- (intransitive) To search on the Internet using Google.
[edit] Usage notes
This term may have trademark status.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from Google
[edit] Translations
Google (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
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