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Encyclopedia > Google (verb)
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The verb to Google means "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet." For example, "Mary Googled for Wikipedia references." Compare with grep. This new word arose from the tremendous popularity of the Google search engine. The American Dialect Society chose Google as a nomination for the "most useful word of 2002." The verb 'Google' was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on June 15, 2006,[1] and to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.[2] The OED notes the question, "Has anyone Googled?" in the Usenet Newgroup alt.fan.british-accent on October 10, 1999 as the first recorded usage of the word. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... This article is about the search engine. ... grep is a command line utility originally written for use with the Unix operating system. ... According to its web site, the American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. ... Merriam-Webster, originally known as the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is a United States company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Websters An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). ...


Overview

"Google" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15th, 2006. In their definition, it has a capital "G" and never a lower-case "g." It always refers to searching for information using the Google search engine, which was named in 1998 [3].


"Googling" someone, or to say that some brand or concept, "does (or doesn't) Google," indicates whether or not information can be found on the subject using the Google engine. For instance, a person named David Jones, or a computer program named "Click", doesn't Google, since using either as a query would return hundreds of links unrelated to the individual or program in question. Similarly, very obscure things don't Google because they return no hits. Both search engines and companies try to ensure that the most relevant results are returned first; thus, virtually every well-known company Googles.


"Googlidge" is a term that refers to the information resulting from a Google search. For example, "Here's some Googlidge on the topic." It is sometimes incorrectly used as a verb in place of the proper verb form, "Google".


Google has attempted to discourage use of the word as a verb, fearing the dilution and potential loss of its trademark, like Yo-Yo, Xerox and escalator (see genericized trademark). The company sent a cease and desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of Word Spy, a website that tracks neologisms.[4] In an article in the Washington Post, Frank Ahrens discussed the letter he received from a Google lawyer that demonstrated "appropriate" and "inappropriate" ways to use the verb "google".[5] It was reported that, in response to this concern, lexicographers for the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary lowercased the actual entry for the word, google, while maintaining the capitalization of the search engine in their definition, "to use the Google search engine to seek online information" (a concern which did not deter the Oxford editors from preserving the history of both "cases").[6] Dilution is a trademark law concept forbidding the use of a famous trademark in a way that would lessen its uniqueness. ... A trademark, trade mark, ™ or ® [1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to uniquely identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to distinguish the business and its products or services from those of other businesses. ... The yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally-sized discs of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, around which a string is wound. ... Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) (pronounced ) is an American document management company, which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. ... Escalators at Canary Wharf, London. ... A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which is often used as the colloquial description for a particular type of product or service as a result of widespread popular or cultural... Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). ... A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) — often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. ... A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ... Merriam-Webster, originally known as the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is a United States company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Websters An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). ... This article is about the search engine. ...


See also

Google Inc.

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In cricket, a googly is a type of delivery bowled by a leg spin bowler. ... Look up googol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Google, Inc. ...


Search Services: Blogs | Books | Catalogs | Code | Directory | Froogle | Groups | Images | News | Personalized Search | Scholar | Video | Web
To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004, Google introduced its Google Print service, now known as Google Book Search. ... Google offers a variety of services and tools besides its basic web search. ... Google Code Search is a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006 allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet. ... Google offers a variety of services and tools besides its basic web search. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Googles main pages unusually spartan design, uncluttered appearance and quick loading time have contributed greatly to the sites mass appeal. ... Wikibooks How to search has more about this subject: Google // Google offers a variety of services and tools besides its basic web search. ... Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. ... By making use of Googles Search History feature, this service allows users to create a profile based on their prior search history. ... Google Scholar is a search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. ... Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge or Google Video Store. ... This article is about the search engine. ...


Web Applications: Analytics | Base | Blogger | Calendar | Docs and Spreadsheets | Finance | Gmail | Google Checkout | Language Tools | Maps | Reader | orkut | Personalized Homepage | Picasa Web Albums | YouTube Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. ... Google Base Screenshot Google Base is an online database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content. ... Blogger is a weblog publishing system owned by Google since 2003. ... Google Calendar, previously code-named CL2, is a contact and time-management Web application offered by Google. ... Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a Web-based word processor & spreadsheet application offered by Google. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see Gmail (disambiguation). ... Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. ... This tool allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another. ... Screenshot of Google Maps showing a route from Toronto to Ottawa on the 400-Series highways. ... On October 7th 2005, Google launched Google Reader, a feed reader, or news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. ... Orkut logo orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. ... In May 2005, Google introduced Personalized Homepage, giving the ability to customize the default Google home page. ... Picasa, Inc is a Pasadena, California based digital photography company that produces an automated digital photo organizer application of the same name. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...


Computer Applications: Desktop | Earth | Hello | Pack | Picasa | SketchUp | Talk | Toolbar Google Desktops logo Google Desktop is Googles version of the desktop search that runs locally on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP3+ PC. The desktop search program allows full text search of all of ones e-mail, computer files, music, photos, chat, and Web pages that... Google Earth is a free-of-charge, downloadable virtual globe program. ... Hello by Picasa, (a Google organisation), is a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs. ... Google Pack was announced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, on January 6. ... Picasa, Inc is a Pasadena, California based digital photography company that produces an automated digital photo organizer application of the same name. ... SketchUp is a 3D modelling program designed for professional architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions, recently acquired by Google. ... Google Talk is a service offered by Google for Voice over IP and instant messaging. ... Googles main pages unusually spartan design, uncluttered appearance and quick loading time have contributed greatly to the sites mass appeal. ...


Miscellaneous: AdSense | AdWords | Answers | Google.org | Labs | Mobile | Sitemaps | SMS | Zeitgeist | Co-op | SearchMash
AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. ... A Google promotional graphic, highlighting AdWords AdWords is Googles flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. ... Google Answers is an Internet search and research service offered for a fee by Google, answer brokering. It was launched by Google in April 2002, and went out of Beta in May 2003. ... Google. ... Google Labs is a website demonstrating new Google projects that arent quite ready for prime time. It serves as a testing ground for new services being developed. ... Google Mobile allows users to search using Google from wireless devices such as mobile phone and PDAs. ... Google Sitemaps is a service offered by Google to help its crawlers better index webpages. ... With Google SMS (Short Message Service) you can send queries as text messages over your mobile phone or device and get answers to your questions. ... Google uses the information it gathers by tracking search results to compile a list of the most frequent search queries. ... Google says that Google Co-op is a way for users to help us improve search. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...


Other
Terminology and concepts: Google economy | Google (verb) | Google bomb | Google juice
History and criticism: Google logo | Google and privacy issues | History of Google | Google's hoaxes
See also: Google Founders' Award | Googleplex | List of acquisitions by Google | PageRank Google Economy identifies the concept that the value of a resource can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Google juice is jargon for the the ability or power of a website to turn up in Google searches. ... Late 1996 - 1998 1998 - July 1999 August 1999 - present Googles Halloween 2005 logo Googles World Cup 2006 logo Google has had several logos since its renaming from BackRub. The company also includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications, of their logo for use on... As the worlds biggest search and ad-broker company, Google has drawn its share of criticism and concern about the privacy of its users. ... This article covers the history of Google, the popular web-based search engine. ... Google has often adopted a light-veined approach in a variety of circumstances. ... The Google Founders Award is a special award for extraordinary entrepreneurial achievement, and the highest employee award at Google, Inc. ... The Googleplex is the Google company headquarters, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. ... This is a listing of corporate acquisitions made by Google. ... PageRank is a patented method to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of measuring its relative importance within the set. ...


Annual Revenue: $7.14 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 9,378 (September 30, 2006)
Stock Symbol: (NASDAQ: GOOG), (LSE: GGEA) | Website: www.google.com Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ...

References

  1. ^ Bylund, Anders. "To Google or Not to Google." The Motley Fool via MSNBC. July 5, 2006. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
  2. ^ Harris, Scott D. "Dictionary adds verb: to google." San Jose Mercury News. July 7, 2006. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
  3. ^ http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html
  4. ^ Duffy, Jonathan. "Google calls in the 'language police'." BBC News. June 20, 2003. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
  5. ^ Frank Ahrens. "So Google Is No Brand X, but What Is 'Genericide'?", Washington Post, 2006-08-05. Retrieved on 2006-08-05.
  6. ^ Noon, Chris. "Brin, Page See 'Google' Take Its Place In Dictionary." Forbes. July 6, 2006. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.

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