google

See also: Google and googlé

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: go͞o'gəl, IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/
• Homophones: Google, googol, gugel

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

1. (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

Etymology 2

From Google.

Noun

google (plural googles)

1. (Internet, informal) An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.
2. (Internet, informal) 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

• googlebomb
• googles
• googlewhack
• googlish

 

Related terms

• googol

Translations

search using Google

• Czech: googlení n
• Dutch: googelen (nl)
• Estonian: guugeldus
• Finnish: googlaus
• Greek: γκουγκλιά (gkougkliá)
• Indonesian: googling
• Italian: googlata (it) f, gugolata f
• Macedonian: гуглање (mk) n (guglanje)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kūkara
• Polish: guglanie (pl) n, guglowanie (pl) n, googlanie (pl) n, googlowanie (pl) n, wyguglowanie (pl) n, wyguglanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pesquisa, (uncommon) googlada f
• Russian: гуглопо́иск m (guglopóisk), гугле́ние n (guglénije)
• Spanish: googleada (es) f
• Swedish: googling (sv) c
• Turkish: gugıl

search using any comprehensive search engine

• Estonian: otsing
• Finnish: haku (fi)
• French: recherche (fr) f
• Italian: ricerca (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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 search using Google

• Finnish: Google-osuma
• Greek: γκουγκλιά f (gkougkliá)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: googleträff (sv) c

Verb

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

   Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

   • 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “Google Search Engine: New Features”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], Google Friends Mailing List, archived from the original on 9 October 1999:

     "Have fun and keep googling!"

   • 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who's Sorry Now?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, retrieved 24 June 2007, page A-19:

     Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. […]

2. (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.

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

   His name googles.

Translations

to search for on the Internet

• Albanian: googloj, gugloj
• Armenian: գուգլել (guglel)
• Basque: gogleatu
• Bengali: গুগল করছি (gugol korchi)
• Bulgarian: гугълвам (gugǎlvam), гугля (guglja)
• Catalan: googlejar
• Czech: vygooglovat, googlit
• Danish: google
• Dutch: googelen (nl)
• Esperanto: gugli
• Estonian: guugeldama, googeldama (rare)
• Finnish: googlata (fi)
• French: googler (fr), gougler
• 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)
• Hungarian: gugol, gúgol, googol (hu)
• Icelandic: gúgla, að gúgla
• Irish: gúgláil
• Italian: googlare (it), gugolare
• Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru), グーグる (gūguru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: pagooglinti, pagūglinti, googlinti
• Macedonian: гугла (mk) (gugla), прогуглува (progugluva)
• Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ (gūgiḷ ceyyū)
• Maltese: iggoogilja
• Maori: kūkara
• Marathi: गूगल करणे (gūgal karṇe)
• Nepali: गूगल गरनु (gūgal garanu)
• Newar: [script needed] (google 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 (pt), (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 பண்ணு (kūkiḷ paṇṇu)
• Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి (gugul cēyyi)
• Turkish: gugullamak, googlelamak, google'lamak

Derived terms

• googlable
• googleable
• googler
• ungooglable
• ungoogleable
• unGoogleable

 

See also

• googlie, googly
• JFGI

Etymology 3

Numeral

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

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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 tense	googler	googles
Past tense	googlede	googledes
Imperative	googl	-
Participle
Present	googlende
Past	googlet
Gerund	googlen

References

• “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Verb

google

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of googlen
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of googlen
3. (deprecated template usage) imperative of googlen

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French

Verb

google

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

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

google

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of googeln.
2. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of googeln.
3. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.
4. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.

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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

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Portuguese

Verb

google

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