google

Goo·gle  (ggl)

A trademark used 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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google

Verb

1. to search for (something) on the internet using a search engine

2. to check (someone's credentials) by searching for websites containing his or her name [from Google, a popular search engine on the internet]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Google - a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product
Verb	1.	google - search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures explore, research, search - inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"