google

google

See also: Google and googlé

English

WOTD – 4 April 2022

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡl̩/
• (General American) enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡ(ə)l/

• Audio (GA)

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

Etymology 1

Back-formation from googly[1] + -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)

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.

Derived terms

• googler

Translations

to bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly

of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly

of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly

Etymology 2

A screenshot of the Google Search home page.

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

Noun

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)

1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

   The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

   Synonyms: Google hit, ghit

   Hypernyms: hit, result

Alternative forms

• Google

Derived terms

• googlebomb
• googlewhack
• googlish

Related terms

• googol

Translations

Internet search performed on the Google search engine

Armenian: գուգլ (gugl) Azerbaijani: quqllamaq Czech: googlení n Dutch: googelen (nl) Estonian: guugeldus Finnish: googlaus French: googliser (fr) Greek: γκουγκλιά (gkougkliá) Icelandic: gúgl Indonesian: googling Italian: googlata (it) f, gugolata f Macedonian: гуглање (mk) n (guglanje) Maori: kūkara Polish: guglanie (pl) n, guglowanie (pl) n, googlanie (pl) n, googlowanie (pl) n, wyguglowanie (pl) n, wyguglanie (pl) n Portuguese: pesquisa (pt), (uncommon) googlada f Russian: гуглопо́иск m (guglopóisk), гугле́ние (ru) n (guglénije) Spanish: googleada (es) f Swedish: googling (sv) c Turkish: googlelamak

Internet search performed on any search engine

Estonian: otsing Finnish: haku (fi) French: recherche (fr) f Italian: ricerca (it) f Japanese: 検索 (ja) (けんさく, kensaku) Macedonian: пребарување n (prebaruvanje) Norwegian: nettsøk n Swedish: internetsökning c, nätsökning c

match obtained by a query in the Google search engine

Finnish: Google-osuma Greek: γκουγκλιά f (gkougkliá) Swedish: googleträff (sv) c

Verb

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 0362-4331, OCLC 971436363, 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.

Alternative forms

• Google

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine

Albanian: googloj, gugloj Armenian: գուգլել (guglel) Basque: gogleatu Bengali: গুগল করছি (gugôlô kôrôchi) Bulgarian: гугълвам (gugǎlvam), гугля (guglja) Catalan: googlejar (ca) Czech: vygooglovat, googlit (cs) Danish: google Dutch: googelen (nl) Esperanto: gugli Estonian: guugeldama, googeldama (rare) Finnish: googlata (fi), googlettaa (fi), kuukkeloida (fi) French: googler (fr), gougler, googliser (fr), google-iser (fr), googoliser (fr), googueuliser (fr), googeliser (fr), googloter (fr) German: googeln (de), googlen Greek: γκουγκλάρω (el) (gkougkláro), γκουγκλίζω (el) (gkougklízo) Gujarati: ગૂગલ કરવુ (gūgal karvu) Hebrew: גיגל‎ (he) (gigél) Hindi: गूगल करना (gūgal karnā) Hungarian: guglizik Icelandic: gúggla, gúgla Irish: gúgláil Italian: googlare (it), gugolare Japanese: ググる (ja) (guguru), グーグる (gūguru) Lithuanian: pagooglinti or pagūglinti (perfective aspect), googlinti Macedonian: гугла (mk) (gugla), прогуглува (progugluva) Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ (gūgiḷ ceyyū) Maltese: iggoogilja Maori: kūkara Marathi: गूगल करणे (gūgal karṇe) Nepali: गूगल गर्नु (gūgal garnu) Newar: गूगल ययेगु (gūgala yayegu) Norwegian: google (no), googla (depending on slang/dialect) Polish: googlować (pl), guglać (pl), wygooglować (pl), przegooglować, pogooglować, guglować (pl), wyguglać (pl), googlać Portuguese: pesquisar no Google, (all rare) googlar (pt), guglar (pt), googlear (pt) Romanian: a gugăli, a googăli Russian: гу́глить (ru) (gúglitʹ), загу́глить (ru) (zagúglitʹ), погу́глить (ru) (pogúglitʹ) Serbo-Croatian: googlati, guglati Slovak: vygoogliť Slovene: googlati Spanish: googlear (es), guglear (es) Swedish: googla (sv) Tagalog: i-google Tamil: கூகிள் செய் (kūkiḷ cey), கூகிள் பண்ணு (kūkiḷ paṇṇu) Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి (gugul cēyyi) Turkish: googlelamak Ukrainian: ґу́ґлити impf (gúglyty), заґу́ґлити pf (zagúglyty), наґу́ґлити pf (nagúglyty), поґу́ґлити pf (pogúglyty) Urdu: گُوگَل کَرنا‎ (gūgal karnā)

to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine

Finnish: hakea (fi), googlata (fi), googlettaa (fi)

to be locatable in a search of the Internet

Finnish: löytyä netistä

Etymology 3

See googol.

Numeral

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

References

1. “google, v.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018.
2. “Google, v.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: 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

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Danish

Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

Verb

google

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of google

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

References

• “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Verb

google

1. first-person singular present indicative of googlen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of googlen
3. imperative of googlen

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French

Verb

google

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

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

google

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of googla

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Portuguese

Verb

google

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