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Google, v.2
Brit. |ˈguːgl|, U.S. |ˈgug(ə)l|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ Google, a proprietary name for an Internet search engine launched in September 1998.
The name of the search engine was perhaps conceived as an alteration of googol n., with allusion to the large amount of information contained on the Internet.Compare the following slightly earlier attestation of Googling as a noun, apparently with the sense ‘web surfing’:
1999Re: Alpha Intrusions in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Aug. I tried your google.com search..and I found this interesting link with lots of links when you get there: a great variety of options for ‘googling’ (?). ]
1. intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.
1999Re: Hi Guys! in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct. Has anyone Googled? www.google.com Ver ver [sic] clean and fast. 2003Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 Sept. (Seven Days section) 7/3 You can google all you want and there's nothing there on them. 2004U.S. News & World Report 14 June 49/2 The couple found themselves Googling for a new place to live.
2. trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.
2000Re: $Emergency Number in NYC in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Jan. I've googled some keywords, and it came up with some other.edu text. 2001N.Y. Times 11 Mar. iii. 12/3, I met this woman last night at a party and I came right home and googled her. 2005‘Belle De Jour’ Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 115 Obsessing over the details, including Googling his name every few hours? Too right I did. |