Google
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
rhymes: -uːɡəl
homophone: google
homophone: googol
Forms: form: Googles
form: Googling
form: Googleing
form: Google-ing
form: Googled
form: Googled
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google'''-ing the names of former boyfriends.
ref: 2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.
ref: 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.
ref: 2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:
text: I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.
ref: 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:
text: We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Lloyd Kaufman with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, Burlington, Mass.; Abingdon, Oxon: Focal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.
ref: 2011, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, →ISBN, page 479:
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Melinda Wells [pen name]: Linda Palmer, Pie à la Murder, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 113:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.
ref: 2014, Lutishia Lovely, The Perfect Affair, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 212:
text: He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.
ref: 2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, →ISBN, page 12:
text: “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”
ref: 2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of google.