Trademark.
verb (used with object), Goo·gled, Goo·gling.
verb (used without object), Goo·gled, Goo·gling.
Origin of Google
Word story
The term google itself is a creative spelling of googol, a number equal to 10 to the 100th power, or more colloquially, an unfathomable number. Googol was coined in the 1930s and is attributed to the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
Soon after Google was created, the trademarked company name became a popular verb. People were “googling” all sorts of information, including their own names. When users google themselves, unless their names are absurdly rare, they may find their “googlegangers” (a portmanteau word combining “google” and “doppelgänger”), or their namesakes, listed in the Google search results.
A whole new industry has sprung up around Google, including the new field of search-engine optimization or SEO, which works to boost the ranking of a name or term in Google and other search-engine results. In 2005, the newly-minted term Google bomb became popular, to describe the intentional skewing of Google search results by creating links to misleading Web pages. Whether we like it or not, we now live in a Google-centric world.
- "Google has come to represent all our hopes, dreams, and fears about the disruptive promise and dangers of the Internet."-Rob Hof Is Google Too Powerful? Bloomberg Businessweek (April 9, 2007)
- "Google's uncorporate slogan—‘Don't be evil’—appeals to Americans who embrace underdogs."-Ken Auletta Googled: The End of the World As We Know It (2009)
- "Show us a man or woman who’s never Googled an ex, and we’ll show you someone without an Internet connection."-Em & Lo You, Again: Reconnecting with the ex is a dicey proposition New York (September 24, 2006)
- "I know nothing about this man, except for what I Googled."-Irene Zutell Pieces of Happily Ever After (2009)
Examples from the Web for google
Contemporary Examples of google
Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.
Google itself has taken a break and put plans for mass production on hold.
If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.
Look, right now, in Africa, why are we using Instagram and Facebook and Google search?
If you zoom in on Google Maps, you can just make out the jumbles of industrial machinery tucked away inside.
Historical Examples of google
He worked at a PR agency, she worked in marketing at Google.
MakersCory Doctorow
Prepared from scans made available by the Google print project.
Samboe; or, The African BoyMary Ann Hedge
The same scans are indexed by Google Books, but only accessible as snippet view.
Adventures in the Philippine IslandsPaul P. de La Gironire
The text of this copy has been prepared from a the second edition scanned by Google.
Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan FrontierT. L. Pennell
There was nothing on there you couldn't find with Google, of course, but I didn't think that would count in my favor.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow