google

• enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

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• Homophones: Google, googol, gugel
• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Hyphenation: goog‧le

Back-formation from googly[1] + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (cricket)

1. (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”).
2. (intransitive)
   1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
   2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

• googler

A screenshot of the Google Search home page.

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).[2]

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)

1. 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.

2. (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.

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• googlish

• googol

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (Internet)

1. (transitive)
   1. 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: […]

   2. (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.

2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

   His name googles.

• Google

See googol.

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

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

From Google, from English google (the verb).

google

1. to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

• “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

google

1. inflection of googlen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
   3. imperative

google

1. inflection of googler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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google

1. inflection of googeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

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

1. Alternative form of googla

google

1. inflection of googlar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative