google

See also: Google and googlé

English

WOTD – 4 April 2022

Pronunciation

• enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

  • Audio (US):

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• Homophones: Google, googol, gugel
• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Hyphenation: goog‧le

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English googly

Proto-Germanic *-lōną

Old English -lian

Middle English -len

English -le

English google

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (cricket)

1. (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
2. (intransitive)
   1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
   2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

Derived terms

• google eye
• google-eyed
• googler

Translations

to bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly

of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly

of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly

Etymology 2

A screenshot of the Google Search home page.

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

Noun

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)

1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
   • 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:

     Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

   Synonyms: Google hit, ghit

   Hypernyms: hit, result

   The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

Alternative forms

• Google

Derived terms

• googlebomb
• googlewhack
• googlish

Related terms

• googol

Translations

Internet search performed on the Google search engine

• Armenian: գուգլ (gugl)
• Azerbaijani: quqllamaq
• Czech: googlení n
• Dutch: googelen (nl)
• Esperanto: gugli
• Estonian: guugeldus
• Finnish: googlaus
• French: googliser (fr)
• Georgian: დაგუგლვა (daguglva)
• Greek: γκουγκλιά (gkougkliá)
• Icelandic: gúgl
• Indonesian: googling
• Italian: googlata (it) f, gugolata f
• Macedonian: гуглање (mk) n (guglanje)
• Māori: kūkara
• Polish: guglanie (pl) n, guglowanie (pl) n, googlanie (pl) n, googlowanie (pl) n, wyguglowanie (pl) n, wyguglanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pesquisa (pt), (uncommon) googlada f
• Russian: гуглопо́иск m (guglopóisk), гугле́ние (ru) n (guglénije)
• Spanish: googleada (es) f
• Swedish: googling (sv) c
• Turkish: googlelamak

Internet search performed on any search engine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搜索 (zh) (sōusuǒ)

• Estonian: otsing
• Finnish: haku (fi)
• French: recherche (fr) f
• Italian: ricerca (it) f
• Japanese: 検索 (ja) (けんさく, kensaku)
• Macedonian: пребарување n (prebaruvanje)
• Norwegian: nettsøk n
• Swedish: internetsökning c, nätsökning c

match obtained by a query in the Google search engine

• Finnish: Google-osuma
• Greek: γκουγκλιά f (gkougkliá)
• Swedish: googleträff (sv) c

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (Internet)

1. (transitive)
   1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

      Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

      • 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 October 1999:

        Have fun and keep googling!

        This is the first occurrence of the term in print.

      • 2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):

        Willow: Have you googled her yet?
        Xander: Willow! She's 17!
        Willow: It's a search engine.

      • 2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):

        Google it.

      • 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2021, page A-19:

        Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

   2. (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.

2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

   His name googles.

Alternative forms

• Google

Derived terms

• FGI
• googlable, googleable
• googler
• google up
• JFGI
• LMGTFY
• quod google
• ungooglable, unGoogleable, ungoogleable

Translations

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine

• Albanian: googloj, gugloj
• Armenian: գուգլել (guglel)
• Basque: gogleatu
• Belarusian: гу́гліць (húhlicʹ), ґу́ґліць (gúglicʹ)
• Bengali: গুগল করছি (gugol korchi)
• Bulgarian: гугълвам impf (gugălvam), гугълна pf (gugălna)
• Catalan: googlejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 谷歌 (zh) (gǔgē)

• Czech: vygooglovat, googlit (cs)
• Danish: google
• Dutch: googelen (nl)
• Esperanto: gugli
• Estonian: guugeldama, googeldama (rare)
• Finnish: googlata (fi), googlettaa (fi), kuukkeloida (fi)
• French: googler (fr), gougler, googliser (fr), google-iser (fr), googoliser (fr), googueuliser (fr), googeliser (fr), googloter (fr)
• Georgian: გუგლავს (guglavs), დაგუგლავს (daguglavs)
• German: googeln (de), googlen
• Greek: γκουγκλάρω (el) (gkougkláro), γκουγκλίζω (el) (gkougklízo)
• Gujarati: ગૂગલ કરવુ (gūgal karvu)
• Hebrew: גיגל (he) (gigél)
• Hindi: गूगल करना (gūgal karnā), गूगलियाना (gūgaliyānā)
• Hungarian: guglizik
• Icelandic: gúggla, gúgla
• Irish: gúgláil
• Italian: googlare (it), gugolare
• Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru), グーグる (gūguru)
• Lithuanian: pagooglinti or pagūglinti (perfective aspect), googlinti or gūglinti
• Macedonian: гугла (mk) (gugla), прогуглува (progugluva)
• Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ (gūgiḷ ceyyū)
• Maltese: iggoogilja
• Māori: kūkara
• Marathi: गूगल करणे (gūgal karṇe)
• Nepali: गूगल गर्नु (gūgal garnu)
• Newar: गूगल ययेगु (gūgala yayegu)
• Norwegian: google (no), googla (depending on slang/dialect)
• Polish: googlować (pl), guglać (pl), wygooglować (pl), przegooglować, pogooglować, guglować (pl), wyguglać (pl), googlać
• Portuguese: pesquisar no Google, (all rare) googlar (pt), guglar (pt), googlear (pt)
• Romanian: a gugăli, a googăli
• Russian: гу́глить (ru) (gúglitʹ), загу́глить (ru) (zagúglitʹ), погу́глить (ru) (pogúglitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: googlati, guglati
• Slovak: vygoogliť
• Slovene: googlati
• Spanish: googlear (es), guglear (es)
• Swedish: googla (sv)
• Tagalog: i-google
• Tamil: கூகிள் செய் (kūkiḷ cey), கூகிள் பண்ணு (kūkiḷ paṇṇu)
• Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి (gugul cēyyi)
• Turkish: googlelamak
• Ukrainian: ґу́ґлити impf (gúglyty), заґу́ґлити pf (zagúglyty), наґу́ґлити pf (nagúglyty), поґу́ґлити pf (pogúglyty)
• Urdu: گُوگَل کَرنا (gūgal karnā)
• Yiddish: גוגלען (guglen)

to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百度 (zh) (bǎidù)

• Finnish: hakea (fi), googlata (fi), googlettaa (fi)
• Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru)

to be locatable in a search of the Internet

• Finnish: löytyä netistä

Etymology 3

See googol.

Numeral

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

Further reading

• Google Search on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• google (verb) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• googly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

Verb

google

1. to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

Conjugation

Conjugation of google

active passive infinitive google googles present googler googles past googlede googledes imperative googl — participle present googlende past (have / havde) googlet gerund googlen

References

• “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (1st and 2nd person singular, imperative)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡəl/

  • Audio:

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  • Hyphenation: goo‧gle
• (subjunctive)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɡ.lə/
  • Hyphenation: goo‧gle

Verb

google

1. inflection of googlen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

French

Verb

google

1. inflection of googler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Verb

google

1. inflection of googeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

google (present tense googlar, past tense googla, past participle googla, passive infinitive googlast, present participle googlande, imperative google/googl)

1. alternative form of googla

Portuguese

Verb

google

1. inflection of googlar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative