Google

See also: google and googlé

English

Logo of Google

Etymology

A deliberate misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophones: google, googol

Proper noun

Google

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (trademark) A particular Internet company.
4. (computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.

Derived terms

• de-Google
• de-Googled
• Doctor Google, Dr. Google
• FANG, FAANG
• FGI
• GAFAM
• GC
• GCal
• ghit
• GIYF, giyf
• Gmail, Gmailer
• Go
• GOOG
• googlable
• google
• googleability, googlability
• googleable, Googleable
• Google bomb, googlebomb
• Google Doodle
• Google effect
• Google-fu
• Google is your friend
• Google machine
• Googlemania
• Googlemaniac
• Googlephone
• Googleplex
• Googler, googler
• Google stalk
• Google tax
• Google Translate, Google translate, Google-translate, Google-Translate
• Googleverse
• googlewhack
• googlewhacker
• googlewhacking
• Googley
• Googlian
• Googlise, Googlize
• Googlish, googlish
• googology
• JFGI
• LMGTFY
• Noogler
• quod google
• TGIF
• unGoogleable, ungooglable
• Xoogler
• Zoogler

Translations

• In other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters.

Google

• Afrikaans: Google
• Amharic: ጉግል (gugl)
• Arabic: جُوجِل (ar) m (jūjil), غُوغِل m (ḡūḡil), قُوقِل m (qūqil)

  Hijazi Arabic: قوقل m (gūgil)

• Armenian: Գուգլ (Gugl)
• Assamese: গুগল (gugol)
• Azerbaijani: Quql
• Bambara: Gugolu
• Belarusian: Гугл m (Huhl)
• Bengali: গুগল (bn) (gugol)
• Bihari: गूगल (gūgal)
• Bulgarian: Гу́гъл m (Gúgǎl)
• Burmese: ဂူဂယ် (gugai)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 谷歌 (guk¹ go¹)

  Mandarin: 谷歌 (zh) (Gǔgē), 科高 (Kēgāo) (Taiwan)

• Chuvash: Кукӑль (Kuk̬ălʹ)
• Czech: Google (cs) m, Gúgl m (humble, rare), Gůgl m (humble, rare)
• Dinka: Google
• Esperanto: Guglo (eo)
• Estonian: Google
• Fiji Hindi: Google
• Finnish: Google
• French: Google (fr)
• Galician: Google (gl)
• Georgian: გუგლი (ka) (gugli)
• German: Google (de) n
• Greek: Γκουγκλ f or n (Gkougkl)
• Gujarati: ગૂગલ n (gūgal)
• Hebrew: גוגל (gugl)
• Hindi: गूगल (hi) m (gūgal)
• Hungarian: Google (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᒎᒐᓪ (coocal)
• Indonesian: Google
• Italian: Google m
• Japanese: グーグル (ja) (Gūguru)
• Javanese: ꦒꦹꦒꦼꦭ꧀ (gūgel)
• Kannada: ಗೂಗಲ್ (gūgal)
• Kazakh: Гугл (Gugl)
• Khmer: ហ្គូហ្គល (guugŭəl)
• Korean: 구글 (ko) (Gugeul)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گووگڵ (ckb) (gûgill)

  Northern Kurdish: Gûgil

• Kyrgyz: Гугл (Gugl)
• Lao: ກູໂກລ (kū kōn)
• Macedonian: Гугл m (Gugl)
• Malay: Google (ms)

  Jawi: ݢوݢل

  Rumi: Google (ms)

• Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ (gūgiḷ)
• Maori: Kūkara
• Marathi: गूगल (gūgal)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Гүүгл (Güügl)

• Nepali: गुगल (gugal)
• Odia: ଗୁଗଲ (gugala)
• Pashto: گووگل
• Persian: گوگل (fa) (gugel)
• Polish: Google (pl) m
• Portuguese: Google (pt) m or f
• Punjabi: ਗੂਗਲ (pa) m (gūgal)
• Romanian: Google
• Russian: Гугл (ru) m (Gugl), Гугль m (Guglʹ)
• Sanskrit: गूगल n (gūgala)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гугл m

  Latin: Gugl m, Google m

• Sinhalese: ගූගල් (gūgal)
• Spanish: Google m
• Swedish: Google (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠉꠟ (gugol)
• Tajik: Гугл (Gugl)
• Tamil: கூகிள் (kūkiḷ)
• Telugu: గూగుల్ (gūgul)
• Tagalog: Google
• Thai: กูเกิล (guu-gə̂n)
• Tigrinya: ጉግል (gugl)
• Turkish: Google (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ґуґл m (Gugl), Гугл m (Huhl)
• Urdu: گوگل m (gūgal)
• Uyghur: گۇگۇل (gugul)
• Vietnamese: Google (vi)
• Yiddish: גוגל (gugl)

See also

• Category:en:Google
• Android
• Frightful Five

Verb

Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)

1. Alternative letter-case form of google
   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2:

     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.

   • 2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33:

     Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.

   • 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29:

     I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

   • 2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:

     Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.

   • 2008, Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, quoting Anne Timmons, “Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel”, in The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, New York, N.Y., London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 92, column 1:

     I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.

   • 2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; […] (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23:

     We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

   • 2009, Lloyd Kaufman with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, Burlington, Mass., Abingdon, Oxon: Focal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

     There are several film festivals going on all over the world at any one time. Do some creative Google-ing and start sending your film out.

   • 2010, Michael Schneider, “Companies and Airlines: Negotiation Positions – Negotiation Options”, in Roland Conrady, Martin Buck, editors, Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010, Springer, →ISBN, page 211:

     Googleing the name of your counterpart will most likely tell you even more: Facebook and the like will tell about hobbies, family etc. and hence give you valuable information on the motivational set of the person.

   • 2011, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, →ISBN, page 479:

     Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.

   • 2011, Melinda Wells [pen name]: Linda Palmer, Pie à la Murder, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 113:

     He must have Googled or Binged me and found out about one of Phil Logan’s early publicity stunts where he had me suited up like a Los Angeles Dodger so his photographer could take a picture of me holding a baseball bat.

   • 2013, Alan Corey, “Career Test Drive”, in The Subversive Job Search: How to Overcome a Lousy Job, Sluggish Economy, and Useless Degree to Create a Six-Figure Career, Pompton Plains, N.J.: Career Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     I Googled the company (then Binged it just to be sure), searched their job listings online, and tried to remember what job I actually applied for that generated this response.

   • 2014, Lutishia Lovely, The Perfect Affair, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 212:

     So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.

   • 2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, →ISBN, page 12:

     He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

   • 2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:

     “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”

Translations

to search the internet using the Google search engine — see google

Danish

Etymology

From English Google.

Proper noun

Google (genitive Googles)

1. Google

Derived terms

• google

Finnish

Etymology

From English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡle/, [ˈɡuːɡle̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡle/, [ˈɡo̞ːɡle̞]
• Rhymes: -uːɡle

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (trademark)
2. Google (search engine)

Declension

Inflection of Google (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Google	—
genitive		Googlen	—
partitive		Googlea	—
illative		Googleen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Google	—
accusative	nom.	Google	—
	gen.	Googlen
genitive		Googlen	—
partitive		Googlea	—
inessive		Googlessa	—
elative		Googlesta	—
illative		Googleen	—
adessive		Googlella	—
ablative		Googlelta	—
allative		Googlelle	—
essive		Googlena	—
translative		Googleksi	—
abessive		Googletta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Google (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Googleni — accusative nom. Googleni — gen. Googleni genitive Googleni — partitive Googleani — inessive Googlessani — elative Googlestani — illative Googleeni — adessive Googlellani — ablative Googleltani — allative Googlelleni — essive Googlenani — translative Googlekseni — abessive Googlettani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Googlesi — accusative nom. Googlesi — gen. Googlesi genitive Googlesi — partitive Googleasi — inessive Googlessasi — elative Googlestasi — illative Googleesi — adessive Googlellasi — ablative Googleltasi — allative Googlellesi — essive Googlenasi — translative Googleksesi — abessive Googlettasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Googlemme — accusative nom. Googlemme — gen. Googlemme genitive Googlemme — partitive Googleamme — inessive Googlessamme — elative Googlestamme — illative Googleemme — adessive Googlellamme — ablative Googleltamme — allative Googlellemme — essive Googlenamme — translative Googleksemme — abessive Googlettamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Googlenne — accusative nom. Googlenne — gen. Googlenne genitive Googlenne — partitive Googleanne — inessive Googlessanne — elative Googlestanne — illative Googleenne — adessive Googlellanne — ablative Googleltanne — allative Googlellenne — essive Googlenanne — translative Googleksenne — abessive Googlettanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Googlensa — accusative nom. Googlensa — gen. Googlensa genitive Googlensa — partitive Googleaan Googleansa — inessive Googlessaan Googlessansa — elative Googlestaan Googlestansa — illative Googleensa — adessive Googlellaan Googlellansa — ablative Googleltaan Googleltansa — allative Googlelleen Googlellensa — essive Googlenaan Googlenansa — translative Googlekseen Googleksensa — abessive Googlettaan Googlettansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• googlata
• googlettaa

French

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡu.ɡœl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Google ?

1. Google

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl], [ˈɡuːɡl̩]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Goo‧gle

Proper noun

Google n (genitive Googles)

1. Google (search engine)
   • 2004, Thomas Köhre, Google: Alles finden und viele Tricks, page 9:

     Sicher haben Sie schon einmal den Ausspruch »Frag doch Google!« gehört und sich gefragt, was dieses Google eigentlich ist?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• googeln

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuːɡl̩], [ˈɡuːɡəl]
• Hyphenation: Google
• Rhymes: -əl

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (search engine or company)

Usage notes

Due to the difficulty posed by its word-final consonant cluster, it is sometimes localized informally (and somewhat jocularly) as gugli and this latter variant may serve as a basis for further derivations.

Declension

The Hungarian version of Google uses suffixes with -o- in Google’s Chrome browser.

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nak	—
instrumental	Google-lal	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lá	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ban	—
superessive	Google-on	—
adessive	Google-nál	—
illative	Google-ba	—
sublative	Google-ra	—
allative	Google-hoz	—
elative	Google-ból	—
delative	Google-ról	—
ablative	Google-tól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-om	—
2nd person sing.	Google-od	—
3rd person sing.	Google-ja	—
1st person plural	Google-unk	—
2nd person plural	Google-otok	—
3rd person plural	Google-juk	—

or

Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nek	—
instrumental	Google-lel	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lé	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ben	—
superessive	Google-ön	—
adessive	Google-nél	—
illative	Google-be	—
sublative	Google-re	—
allative	Google-höz	—
elative	Google-ből	—
delative	Google-ről	—
ablative	Google-től	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-öm	—
2nd person sing.	Google-öd	—
3rd person sing.	Google-je	—
1st person plural	Google-ünk	—
2nd person plural	Google-ötök	—
3rd person plural	Google-jük	—

or

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nek	—
instrumental	Google-lel	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lé	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ben	—
superessive	Google-en	—
adessive	Google-nél	—
illative	Google-be	—
sublative	Google-re	—
allative	Google-hez	—
elative	Google-ből	—
delative	Google-ről	—
ablative	Google-től	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-em	—
2nd person sing.	Google-ed	—
3rd person sing.	Google-je	—
1st person plural	Google-ünk	—
2nd person plural	Google-etek	—
3rd person plural	Google-jük	—

Derived terms

• guglizható (“googleable”)
• guglizhatatlan (“ungoogleable”)
• (gugliz →) kigugliz, meggugliz, rágugliz (“to google up”, approximately)
• guglizik (“to google”)

Further reading

• Kiguglizhatatlan at latillad.org
• Collection of posts in this topic at moly.hu
• Melyik a helyes? Google-lal vagy google-val? at gyakorikerdesek.hu
• Google-on at e-nyelv.hu

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡol/
• Rhymes: -uɡol

Proper noun

Google m

1. Google (search engine or company)

Derived terms

• googlare

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɡl/
• Rhymes: -uɡl
• Syllabification: Google

Proper noun

Google m inan

1. Google

Declension

Declension of Google

	singular
nominative	Google
genitive	Google'a
dative	Google'owi
accusative	Google
instrumental	Google'em
locative	Google'u
vocative	Google'u

or

Indeclinable.

Derived terms

verb

• googlować

Further reading

• Google in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡow/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡɔɫ/

Proper noun

Google m or f

1. Google (search engine or company)

Usage notes

When referring to the search engine the noun is often treated as masculine, when referring to the company itself as feminine.

Derived terms

• googlear, googlar

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣu˧˧ ɣo˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣʊw˧˧ ɣow˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣʊw˧˧ ɣow˨˩]
• Phonetic spelling: gu gồ

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (search engine or company)