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- [goo-guh l]
- /ˈgu gəl/
- /ˈɡuː.ɡl̩/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [goo-guh l]
- /ˈgu gəl/
Definitions of google word
- verb with object google (often lowercase) to search the Internet for information about (a person, topic, etc.): We googled the new applicant to check her background. 1
- verb without object google (often lowercase) to use a search engine such as Google to find information, a website address, etc., on the Internet. 1
- noun google Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet, typically using the search engine Google. 1
- transitive verb google search the internet for 1
- noun Technical meaning of google (web) The web search engine that indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this index in less than a second. The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but note the difference in spelling. The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?" 1
- proper noun google Google is a popular Internet search engine. It scans the Web to find Web pages that are relevant to the words you have typed in the search box. 0
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Origin of google
First appearance:
before 1998 One of the 1% newest English words
First recorded in 1998; after mathematical term googol
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Google
noun
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google popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
google usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with google
- google what song is this?
- okay google what song is this?
- okay google what is?
- what is google?
- how to make google your homepage?
- okay google what time is it?
- how to make google my homepage?
- google what time is it?
- how old is google?
- google how do you spell?
- what is google drive?
- how to change your profile picture on google?
- how to do hanging indent on google docs?
- okay google who is?
- how do i make google my homepage?