A trademark for an internet search engine. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb, sometimes in lowercase: “A high school English teacher … recently Googled a phrase in one student's paper and found it had been taken from a sample essay of an online editing service” ( Chris Berdik )
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- The definition of Google is a company known for an Internet search engine, as well as for computer apps like Gmail, Picasa and Google Drive.
The company that made the commonly used Gmail email is an example of Google.
- To google is defined as slang meaning to look up information online using a search engine.
Going on the Google website to find a bread making recipe is an example of google.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
Origin
From googly.
Noun
(plural googles)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
- (intransitive, Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- His name googles.
Origin
From Google.
Proper noun
Usage notes
This term may have trademark status.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling, simple past and past participle Googled)
- Alternative capitalization of google
Origin
The company was named for a misspelling of googol, or one followed by a hundred zeros, alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
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google - Computer Definition
(Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest Web search engine and one of the most influential companies in the tech world. In addition to general Web searching, Google offers a variety of specialized search tools and a huge amount of Web and desktop software that includes office apps, multimedia and social networking (see Google applications). Each of the following Google products is used by more than a billion people: Android, YouTube, Chrome browser and Maps navigation. In addition, Google is involved in advertising, publishing, software development, security, statistics, language translation and driverless cars. Android is the leading mobile platform worldwide, and highly secretive Google Labs is exploring the future of high tech. In 2015, Google formed Alphabet, a holding company that includes Google and all of its projects and acquisitions. See Alphabet, Google X Lab and Android. It Started With BackRub Search In 1996, Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed their "BackRub" search engine and unique page ranking (explained below). With investments from Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim and others, Google was founded in September 1998, and BackRub was launched as the Google search engine in 1999. The Google name came from "googol," a number so large no one can fathom it (1 plus 100 zeros). Chosen to represent the immensity of the Web and the huge ambitions of the company, the choice of name was exceedingly appropriate. See googol. The Clean Screen Google set itself apart from the other search sites with the first almost-empty home page. Instead of being laden with graphics that took forever to come in over analog modems, the Google page downloaded fast, and users sensed an immediate response before they started searching. With a single graphic, the home page is still ultra sparse (see Google Doodle). However, behind it all lies an incredibly sophisticated infrastructure. The company streamlines its servers to provide the most search engine power for the least amount of energy. Using its own self-healing software, the Google indexes are mirrored around the globe, and servers can fail without disruption. The Popularity Approach Called "PageRank," Google introduced the concept of popularity to rank pages in the search results. The pages with the most links pointing to them from other sites ("backlinks") are placed higher in the list. The websites' popularity is analyzed going back several levels, which is why a site ranks higher if 25 popular sites link to it rather than 100 non-popular sites. Today, Google analyzes Web pages not just for popularity, but for myriad attributes (see Google algorithm). Lots of Acquisitions Starting with the Usenet discussion groups in 2001 and YouTube video in 2006, Google has acquired numerous companies that contributed value (see Usenet and YouTube). See Google bomb and Googleplex.
Google +
See Google+.
Google+
A social networking site from Google, introduced in 2011, initially by invitation only from other Google+ users. Although Google+ has not achieved the market share of Facebook as a social network, Hangouts is relatively popular. Following are some of the major features. Hangouts Hangouts supports messaging and audio and video calls across desktop and mobile devices. For example, it lets up to 10 users video call each other with callers visible in small windows, while the person talking displays in a large window. Hangouts On Air lets people broadcast live videos on their Google+ home page and YouTube channel. Circles Friends and families are stored in Circles, which display as circular icons on screen. In order to better engineer privacy and who sees what, all posts, photos and invitations are shared by dragging them into the appropriate Circle, which remembers the last selection. Friends, Acquaintances, Family and Following (whom you follow) are the defaults, but any Circle can be created. Photos In 2015, the photo service in Google+ was spun out as a separate service (see Google Photos). See Google+ Ripples, Google+ Sparks and Google.
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Sentence Examples
- Its a rather vague term to put into Google.
- Search, MSN search and Google all have systems in place so that such misdemeanors can be reported.
- Search engines such as Google exist to solve this problem.
- The pay per click (PPC) business is a way to advertise online to people who did a specific search in a search engine like Google or who are viewing content on a certain topic.
- In 2007, Google researchers estimated there were one hundred trillion words on the Internet.
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