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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From googly.
Verb [edit]
google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
- (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
- (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Google.
Noun [edit]
google (plural googles)
- An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
- (Internet) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
- The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
search using Google
search using any comprehensive search engine
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a match obtained by a search using Google
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Verb [edit]
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.
- (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.
Quotations [edit]
- 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “Google Search Engine: New Features”, accessed on 2007-08-06:
- "Have fun and keep googling!"
- 2002 October 15, Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon as Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, “Help”, 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.
- Willow: Have you googled her yet?
- 2002 December 13, Jennifer Lopez as Marisa, Maid In Manhattan:
- "Google it."
- 2002 December 28, Keller, Bill, “Who's Sorry Now?”, The New York Times, page A-19, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved on 2007-06-24:
Translations [edit]
to search for on the Internet
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Dutch [edit]
Verb [edit]
- first-person singular present indicative of googlen
- singular present subjunctive of googlen
- imperative of googlen
French [edit]
Verb [edit]
- first-person singular present indicative of googler
- third-person singular present indicative of googler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
- second-person singular imperative of googler
German [edit]
Verb [edit]
- First-person singular present of googeln.
- Imperative singular of googeln.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
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