goo·gle
| \ ˈgü-gəl
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variants:
or Google
googled
or Googled;
googling\ ˈgü-g(ə-)liŋ
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or Googling;
googles
or Googles
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or Googling;
googles
or Googles
Definition of google
: to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (someone or something) on the World Wide Web
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Other Words from google
googleable
\ ˈgü-gə-lə-bəl
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or Googleable
adjective
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or Googleable
adjective
The Massachusetts trio may not have picked an easily Googleable name …
— Leah Greenblatt
Examples of google in a Sentence
Then where are they going, if not to Faulkner and Achebe and Naipaul? … To the movies; to television (hours and hours); to Googling obsessively (hours and hours); to blogging and emailing and text messaging …
— Cynthia Ozick, Harper's, April 2007
The Sports Gal and I delayed dinner plans so I could analyze the replays like a police chief. Eventually she realized we weren't leaving the house, so she made herself a sandwich and headed upstairs to Google divorce lawyers.
— Bill Simmons, ESPN, 6 Dec. 2004
Have you ever googled yourself, maybe late at night, when nobody else was around? It's OK, you can admit it—everybody does it.
— Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News, 17 Apr. 2004
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Recent Examples on the Web
The following is courtesy of Gli Autogol, DJ Matrix, the man himself and google translate. — SI.com, "Atalanta: 6 Players You Should Know After Their Historic Champions League Qualification," 6 June 2019 There's the one that poked fun at Lara Jean’s not-so-stealth attempt to hide from the guys who received her love letters, the shot of fans googling Noah Centineo’s age (guilty as charged), and the hundreds of tweets gushing about that hot tub scene. — Samantha Leach, Glamour, "Now Trending: The Woke Dad in Teen Films," 29 Aug. 2018 Years later, while trying to reconcile his past, Mr. Kaphar googled his father and found his mug shot along with those of 97 other men—mostly African-American—with the exact same first and last name as his birth father. — Joe Barrett, WSJ, "MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners Include Sci-Fi Junkie and an MIT Economist," 4 Oct. 2018 By googling how to rob a bank and watching heist movies, of course. — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, "Intriguing 'American Animals' examines memory, guilt," 7 June 2018 On the night of June 11, 2016, Omar Mateen googled and visited Disney Springs, a popular Orlando outdoor shopping and recreation area. — Tim Fitzsimons /, NBC News, "What really happened that night at Pulse," 12 June 2018 Janani Krishnan was googling the Riverdale star at an ice cream shop, and Cole was quick to notice. — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, "Cole Sprouse Caught A Fan Googling Him and His Response Was Funny AF," 5 Jan. 2018 People tend to google them, which means traffic, so we are told to cover them. — Alex Van Buren, Health.com, "‘National Eat What You Want Day’ Is One Food Holiday We Plan to Celebrate—Today and Every Day," 11 May 2018 See our list of the South's National Parks here and start googling trail mix recipes. — Southern Living, "A Visit to National Parks Won't Cost You Anything on These Four Days," 9 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'google.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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