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ALL meanings of google

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  • 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
  • noun google Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet, typically using the search engine Google. 1
  • 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
  • transitive verb google search the internet for 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
  • noun google a popular search engine on the internet 0
  • verb google to search for (something on the internet) using a search engine 0
  • verb google to check (the credentials of someone) by searching for websites containing his or her name 0
  • noun google An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine. 0
  • noun google (Internet) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine. 0
  • verb google (Intransitive Verb) (cricket) To deliver googlies. 0
  • verb google (Intransitive Verb) (cricket) To move as a ball in a googly. 0
  • verb google (Transitive Verb) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine. 0
  • verb google (Transitive Verb) (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine. 0
  • verb google (Intransitive Verb) (Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet. 0
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