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Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry:	google¹
Part of Speech:	v
Definition:	to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine
Example:	She googled her high school boyfriends.
Etymology:	trademark Google
Usage:	googling n

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Main Entry:	google²
Part of Speech:	v
Definition:	to search for information on the Internet, esp. using the Google search engine
Example:	We googled to find the definition of the new word.
Etymology:	trademark Google
Usage:	googling n

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Goo·gle Audio Help (gōō'gəl) Pronunciation Key
A trademark used for an Internet search engine. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb, sometimes in lowercase: "A high school English teacher ... recently Googled a phrase in one student's paper and found it had been taken from a sample essay of an online editing service" (Chris Berdik).

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google
noun
1.	a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search
verb
1.	search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day"

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Google World-Wide Web
The World-Wide Web search engine that indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this index in less than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but note the difference in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"
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