google

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

Noun

google (plural googles)

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

   The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

   Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

   • 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “Google Search Engine: New Features”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, Google Friends Mailing List, archived from the original on 9 October 1999, retrieved 6 August 2007:

     "Have fun and keep googling!"

   • 2002 October 15, Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon as Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4:

     Willow: Have you googled her yet?
     Xander: Willow! She's 17!
     Willow: It's a search engine.

   • 2002 December 13, Jennifer Lopez as Marisa, Maid In Manhattan:

     "Google it."

   • 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who's Sorry Now?”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 24 June 2007, page A-19:

     Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. […]

2. (transitive, 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.

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

   His name googles.

See also

• googlie, googly
• JFGI

Numeral

google (plural googles)

1. Misspelling of googol.

Conjugation