Google

See also: google and googlé

English

Logo of Google

Etymology

An accidental 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):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophones: google, googol

Proper noun

Google

2. (trademark) A particular Internet company.
   • 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

4. (computing, trademark) Google Search, a search engine operated by the company of the same name; the most popular search engine and most-visited website worldwide.

   He did some research on Google for his history project.

   • 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor:

     As a house officer you think your registrar is unimpeachably correct and clever, like God maybe, or Google, and you try not to bother them under almost any circumstance.

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 debunker
• Google Doc
• Google Doodle
• Google effect
• Google-fu
• Google Grouper
• Google Groupie
• 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)
• Bhojpuri: गूगल (gūgal)
• Bulgarian: Гу́гъл m (Gúgǎl)
• Burmese: ဂူဂယ် (gugai)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 谷歌 (guk¹ go¹)

  Mandarin: 谷歌 (zh) (Gǔgē), 狗狗 (zh) (Gǒugǒu) (dated)

• 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)
• Indonesian: Google
• Inuktitut: ᒎᒐᓪ (coocal)
• 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 klō)
• Macedonian: Гугл m (Gugl)
• Malay: Google (ms)

  Jawi: ݢوݢل

  Rumi: Google (ms)

• Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ (gūgiḷ)
• Māori: 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)
• Tagalog: Google
• Tajik: Гугл (Gugl)
• Tamil: கூகிள் (kūkiḷ)
• Telugu: గూగుల్ (gūgul)
• Thai: กูเกิล (guu-gə̂n)
• Tigrinya: ጉግል (gugl)
• Tok Pisin: Google
• 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

Borrowed from English Google.

Proper noun

Google (genitive Googles)

1. Google

Derived terms

• google

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡu.ɡœl/

• Audio (France):

  (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

Further reading

• “Google” in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing 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

Etymology tree

English google

English Googleubor.

Polish Google

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Google m inan

1. Google

Usage notes

In some cases it may be indeclinable due to the presence of a foreign name.

Declension

Declension of Google

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

Derived terms

verb

• googlować

Further reading

• “Google”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡow/ [ˈɡu.ɡoʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡɐl/ [ˈɡu.ɣɐɫ]

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡuɡol/ [ˈɡu.ɣ̞ol]
  • Rhymes: -uɡol
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡuɡul/ [ˈɡu.ɣ̞ul]
  • Rhymes: -uɡul
• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡuɡel/ [ˈɡu.ɣ̞el]
  • Rhymes: -uɡel
• Syllabification: Goo‧gle

Proper noun

Google m

1. Google (search engine or company)
   • 2025 January 28, Jordan Valinsky, “Google Maps cambiará el nombre del golfo de México por el de "golfo de Estados Unidos"”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     En una publicación en X, Google explicó que tiene una “práctica de larga data de aplicar cambios de nombre cuando se han actualizado en fuentes gubernamentales oficiales”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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)