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google

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World English Dictionary
Google (ˈɡuːɡəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a popular search engine on the internet
 
—vb
2.  to search for (something on the internet) using a search engine
3.  to check (the credentials of someone) by searching for websites containing his or her name
 
[C20: a play on googol]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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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
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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Word Origin & History

google
"to search (something) on the Google search engine," 2000 (do a google on was used by 1999). The domain google.com was registered in 1997. A verb google was an early 20c. cricket term in ref. to a type of breaking ball.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary

google definition


  1. in. & tv.
    to search (for) something on the internet, using Google.com. : Why don't you just go to your computer and google for it yourself?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

Google definition

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?"
(http://google.com/).
(2001-12-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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