A particular Internet company.
Proper noun
- 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). - 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making...
- 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. - 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret...
Origin
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.
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de-Google de-Googled Doctor Google Dr. Google FANG FAANG FGI GAFAM GC GCal ghit GIYF giyf Gmail Gmailer Go GOOG googlable google googleability googlability googleable Googleable Google bomb
Verb
- Alternative 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...
- Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google'''-ing the names of former boyfriends. - 2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33:
- I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of. - 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29: