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Google

proper nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɡuː.ɡəl//

A particular Internet company.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A particular Internet company.

    Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

  2. 2

    Google Search, a search engine operated by the company of the same name; the most popular search engine and most-visited website worldwide.

    He did some research on Google for his history project.

    As a house officer you think your registrar is unimpeachably correct and clever, like God maybe, or Google, and you try not to bother them under almost any circumstance.

Etymology

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

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of googleAlternative letter-case form of google.

    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.

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

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

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

Forms

past tense
Googled
past participle
Googled
present participle
Googling, Googleing, Google-ing
third person singular
Googles
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).