google

See also Google, and googlé

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: go͞o'gəl, IPA: /ˈɡuːɡəl/, X-SAMPA: /"gu:g@l/
• Homophones: Google, googol

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

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

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. An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
2. (Internet) 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 (cs) n
• Finnish: googlaus (fi)
• German: googeln (de)
• Italian: gugolata (it) f, gugulata (it) f
• Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru)
• Macedonian: гуглање (mk) (gùglanje) n

• Polish: guglanie (pl) n
• Russian: гуглопоиск (ru) (guglopóisk) m
• Spanish: googlear (es)
• Swedish: googling (sv)
• Turkish: gugıl (tr)

search using any comprehensive search engine

• Finnish: haku (fi)
• Macedonian: пребарување (mk) (prebarùvanje) n

• Norwegian: nettsøk (no) n
• Swedish: internetsökning (sv) c, nätsökning (sv) c

a match obtained by a search using Google

• Swedish: googleträff (sv) c

Verb

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

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

   Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

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.

Quotations

• 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “Google Search Engine: New Features”, accessed on 2007-08-06:

  "Have fun and keep googling!"

• 2002 October 15, Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon as Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, “Help”, Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 episode 4:

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

• 2002 December 13, Jennifer Lopez as Marisa, Maid In Manhattan:

  "Google it."

• 2002 December 28, Keller, Bill, “Who's Sorry Now?”, The New York Times, page A-19, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved on 2007-06-24:

  "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...."

Translations

to search for on the Internet

• Albanian: googloj, gugloj
• Armenian: գուգլել (hy) (guglel)
• Bengali: গুগল করছি (bn) (gūgal korchi)
• Bulgarian: гугълвам, гугля
• Catalan: googlejar
• Croatian: googlati, guglati
• Czech: vygooglovat (cs), googlit (cs)
• Danish: google (da)
• Dutch: googelen (nl)
• Estonian: googeldama (et)
• Finnish: googlata (fi), googlettaa (fi)
• French: googler, gougler
• German: googeln (de), googlen (de)
• Gujarati: ગૂગલ કરવુ (gu) (gūgal karvu)
• Hebrew: גיגל (he) (gigél)
• Hindi: गूगल करना (hi) (google karnā)
• Icelandic: gúgla (is), að gúgla (is)
• Italian: googlare (it), guglare (it)
• Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru)

• Lithuanian: pagooglinti, pagūglinti, gооglinti
• Macedonian: гугла (mk) (gùgla), прогуглува (mk) (progùgluva)
• Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ (ml) (googil cheyyoo)
• Maltese: iggoogilja
• Nepali: गूगल गरनु (ne) (google garnu)
• Newari: (google yayegu)
• Norwegian: google (no), googla (no) (depending on slang/dialect)
• Polish: googlować (pl), guglać (pl)
• Portuguese: googlar (pt), guglar (pt)
• Romanian: a gugăli, a googăli
• Russian: гуглить (ru) (gúglit')
• Serbian: guglati
• Slovak: vygoogliť (sk)
• Spanish: googlear (es), guglear
• Swedish: googla (sv)
• Tagalog: i-google
• Tamil: கூகிள் பண்ணு (ta) (kūkil paṇṇu)
• Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి (te) (google cheyyi)
• Turkish: gugullamak, googlelamak, google'lamak

See also

• googlie, googly
• madame linkmonger
• JFGI

External links

• www.google.com

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Dutch

Verb

google

1. first-person singular present indicative of googlen
2. singular present subjunctive of googlen
3. imperative of googlen

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French

Verb

google

1. first-person singular present indicative of googler
2. third-person singular present indicative of googler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
5. second-person singular imperative of googler

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German

Verb

google

1. First-person singular present of googeln.
2. Imperative singular of googeln.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.

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Portuguese

Verb

google

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of googlar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of googlar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of googlar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of googlar