google

Plural: googles

Noun

• a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search
• An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
• A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

Verb

• search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
  • "He googled the woman he had met at the party"
• To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
• Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
• Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
• To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
• To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
• To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

Num

• Misspelling of googol.

Examples

• His name googles.
• I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
• The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
• Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Synonyms

Google hit, ghit

Related Words

googol

Anagrams of google