Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A trademark used for an Internet search engine. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb, sometimes in lowercase: "A high school English teacher ... recently Googled a phrase in one student's paper and found it had been taken from a sample essay of an online editing service” ( Chris Berdik).
Wiktionary
- n. A particular Internet company.
- n. computing A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
- n. A service mark owned by Google Inc.
- v. transitive To search for, using Google (or, rarely, another Internet search engine).
- v. transitive To investigate, using Google.
- v. intransitive To search on the Internet using Google.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search
- v. search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
Etymologies
- The company was named after a mispelling of googol, one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Three months after it began redirecting traffic from its censored, China-based google. cn site to a less-regulated site based in Hong Kong, google. hk, Google said Monday night that it would stop sending Chinese users to the Hong Kong page automatically.”
The Washington Post: Faster Forward: Google to defy China's censors a little less
“Images of the tanks on Tienanmen Square in the horrible student suppression, again turned up on the google.cn website results as Google openly challenged the rules by which it has had to play in China.”
“If 40% of the time people said "I'll google it" they then went and used Yahoo or Bing, Google might be a lot less happy about the situation.”
“When people need information, they “google” it and give Google credit for finding information that content creators are desperately working to make findable on Google with the help of a well-paid army of SEO consultants.”
“Culture, People twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters”
“Meanwhile, Yahoo! launched its own research laboratory in January, and Cutting himself is building an open-source alternative to Google see Keeping an Eye on Google.”
“But Google logs just 2 per cent of the information brought in through Google Suggest, in order to improve the feature, Mr. Rakowski said, and makes this data anonymous within 24 hours.”
“You can use + (eg +México) which helps somewhat but there will be other factors such as the google search sitee (eg google.es vs google.com), language of the google home page, the IP number, and whether personalized Google is on.”
“They dropped google.co.jp's pagerank from a nine to a five in the Google seearch toolbar.”
“… By allowing people to do site searches whilst still on google.co.uk, Google is potentially reducing the number of page, and therefore advert, impressions that these newspapers may be getting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Google’.
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Googleglotton
Googley words
Google Glass, google, plus, +, Googlism, googlebombs, googlewhack, googlebombing, googlebomb, googleplex, googleable, googles and 43 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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Genericised Trademarks and Trademark ...
Brand names and/ or trademarks that are now used instead or alongside similar products' names.
Pacer, Texta, Thermos, Escalator, Zipper, Aspirin, Kleenex, Cellophane, Yo-yo, Trampoline, Petrol, Vaseline and 68 more...
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US - realia
Words and expressions, people and cultural realia that foreigners associate with the United States
entrepreneurship, can-do-attitude, down-to-earth app..., multicultural soc..., melting pot, cast in the same ..., self-made man, rugged individualism, gap between rich ..., make money, people from all w..., giant with feet o... and 80 more...
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Words of the decade 2000-2009
These are the words which characterize the decade, the ones on minds, on lips, in hearts: the ones which rose or flourished during these ten years, and became an inseparable part of our discourse, ...
Google, iPod, 9/11, global war on terror, social networking, texting, green, blog, podcast, sudoku, sexting, dubya and 7 more...
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Shorty, Meredith, and States Rights
We're helping a pregnant friend list terrible baby names for a boy. Can you think of any?
States Rights, Meredith, Theophilus, St. George, Kennesaw Mountain, McQueen, 7, Adolph, Dubya, Sue, anything, Junior, Bubba and 6 more...
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Trademarks
"A trademark is any word, name, symbol, or design, or any combination thereof, used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from those of another and to indi...
Academy Award, Ace bandage, Acrilan, Addressograph, Alar, Alcian blue, Alclad, Aldis lamp, Ampakine, Amtrak, Amytal, Angostura bitters and 661 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, airbus, alnico, adware, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, boxercise, bakelite, bromo, atebrin and 774 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Google.
ry I had noticed this too. I thought it might be related to Google's recent efforts to "personalize" search by ranking certain results based on your search and browsing history. alexz, do you have a Google account with which you were logged in, when you noticed those results? Jan 27, 2013
alexz It would seem that Wordnik is actively indexed by Google and Bing. I added Liddisdale drow to wordnik a few hours ago, and in searching for more references for this phrase, got linked back to Wordnik on both search engines.
Jan 26, 2013
lbeaumont Google originated from a misspelling of the word googol. Nov 14, 2010