Google

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Google (disambiguation)

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Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophones: google, googol

Google

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (trademark) A particular Internet company.
4. (computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.

• In other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters.

• Category:en:Google
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Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)

1. Alternative letter-case form of google
   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2:

     Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.

   • 2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33:

     Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.

   • 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29:

     I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

   • 2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:

     Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.

   • 2008, Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, quoting Anne Timmons, “Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel”, in The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, New York, N.Y., London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 92, column 1:

     I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.

   • 2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives;  (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23:

     We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

   • 2009, Lloyd Kaufman with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, Burlington, Mass., Abingdon, Oxon: Focal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

     There are several film festivals going on all over the world at any one time. Do some creative Google-ing and start sending your film out.

   • 2010, Michael Schneider, “Companies and Airlines: Negotiation Positions – Negotiation Options”, in Roland Conrady, Martin Buck, editors, Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010, Springer, →ISBN, page 211:

     Googleing the name of your counterpart will most likely tell you even more: Facebook and the like will tell about hobbies, family etc. and hence give you valuable information on the motivational set of the person.

   • 2011, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, →ISBN, page 479:

     Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.

   • 2011, Melinda Wells : Linda Palmer, Pie à la Murder, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 113:

     He must have Googled or Binged me and found out about one of Phil Logan’s early publicity stunts where he had me suited up like a Los Angeles Dodger so his photographer could take a picture of me holding a baseball bat.

   • 2013, Alan Corey, “Career Test Drive”, in The Subversive Job Search: How to Overcome a Lousy Job, Sluggish Economy, and Useless Degree to Create a Six-Figure Career, Pompton Plains, N.J.: Career Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     I Googled the company (then Binged it just to be sure), searched their job listings online, and tried to remember what job I actually applied for that generated this response.

   • 2014, Lutishia Lovely, The Perfect Affair, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 212:

     So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.

   • 2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, →ISBN, page 12:

     He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

   • 2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:

     “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^da

From English Google.

Google (genitive Googles)

1. Google

• google

From English Google.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡle/,
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/,
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡle/,
• Rhymes: -uːɡle

Google

1. Google (trademark)
2. Google (search engine)

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^fr

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡu.ɡœl/

• Audio:

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Google ?

1. Google

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^de

Borrowed from English Google.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, ,

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Goo‧gle

Google n (genitive Googles)

1. Google (search engine)
   • 2004, Thomas Köhre, Google: Alles finden und viele Tricks, page 9:

     Sicher haben Sie schon einmal den Ausspruch »Frag doch Google!« gehört und sich gefragt, was dieses Google eigentlich ist?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• googeln

 Google (company) on Hungarian Wikipedia

 Google (search engine) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Borrowed from English Google.

• IPA^(key): ,
• Hyphenation: Google
• Rhymes: -əl

Google

1. Google (search engine or company)

Due to the difficulty posed by its word-final consonant cluster, it is sometimes localized informally (and somewhat jocularly) as gugli and this latter variant may serve as a basis for further derivations.

The Hungarian version of Google uses suffixes with -o- in Google’s Chrome browser.^[1]

or

or

• guglizható (“googleable”)
• guglizhatatlan (“ungoogleable”)
• (gugliz →) kigugliz, meggugliz, rágugliz (“to google up”, approximately)
• guglizik (“to google”)

• Kiguglizhatatlan at latillad.org
• Collection of posts in this topic at moly.hu
• Melyik a helyes? Google-lal vagy google-val? at gyakorikerdesek.hu
• Google-on at e-nyelv.hu

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^it

Borrowed from English Google.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡol/^[1]
• Rhymes: -uɡol

Google m

1. Google (search engine or company)

• googlare

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^pl

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɡl/
• Rhymes: -uɡl
• Syllabification: Google

Google m inan

1. Google

or

Indeclinable.

• Google in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Google

Wikipedia ^pt

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡow/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡɔɫ/

Google m or f

1. Google (search engine or company)

When referring to the search engine the noun is often treated as masculine, when referring to the company itself as feminine.^[1]

• googlear, googlar