# google
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: Google, googol, gugel
* Rhymes: -uːɡəl
* Hyphenation: goog‧le

### Etymology 1

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

#### Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (cricket)
* (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
* (intransitive)
** Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
** Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

##### Derived terms

* googler

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

#### Noun

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)
* An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
** 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
* (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
    Synonyms: Google hit, ghit
    Hypernyms: hit, result
    The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

##### Alternative forms

* Google

##### Derived terms

* googlebomb
* googlewhack
* googlish

##### Related terms

* googol

##### Translations
#### Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (Internet)
* (transitive)
** To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
    Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
*** 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups‎, archived from the original on 9 October 1999:Have fun and keep googling!This is the first occurrence of the term in print.
*** 2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine.
*** 2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):Google it.
*** 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2021, page A-19:Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]
** (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.
* (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
    His name googles.

##### Alternative forms

* Google

##### Derived terms

* FGI
* googlable, googleable
* googler
* google up
* JFGI
* LMGTFY
* quod google
* ungooglable, unGoogleable, ungoogleable

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

See googol.

#### Numeral

google
* Misspelling of googol.

### References

* ↑ “google, v.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2018.
* ↑ “Google, v.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
* ↑ “google, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* Google Search on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* google (verb) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* googly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

### Verb

google
* to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

#### Conjugation

| | Active | Passive |
| Infinitive | google | googles |
| Present tense | googler | googles |
| Past tense | googlede | googledes |
| Imperative | googl | - |
| Participle |||
| Present | googlende | googlende |
| Past | googlet | googlet |
| Gerund | googlen | googlen |

### References

* “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Verb

google
* inflection of googlen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative
** (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

## French
### Verb

google
* inflection of googler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

google
* inflection of googeln:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

google (present tense googlar, past tense googla, past participle googla, passive infinitive googlast, present participle googlande, imperative google/googl)
* Alternative form of googla

## Portuguese
### Verb

google
* inflection of googlar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative