google

Look it up

Google is a trademark of the California-based Internet search and advertising company.

Because of the dominance of Google in Internet searching, popular usage has turned google into a lower-case-g verb: I googled his name and learned that he had been sued for malpractice several times.

As a verb, google borrows syntactic patterns from search, being used as a regular transitive verb or followed by a prepositional phrase with for: I was googling for cookie recipes to find one that uses cream cheese.

When someone says the are looking for something on Google they are using Google as a search engine.

verb

search

Act of seeking

fact-check · browse · query · dox · stalk

Categories
Opposites
information retrieval method

googlephone a friend

Request remote assistance

ask around · word of mouth

knowledge source authority

googlepeer review

Expert evaluation before publication

scholarly research · fact-check · verify · deep dive

cognitive effort

googlethink it through

figure it out · reason · remember · recall · deduce

Phrases
Family

googled, googling, googles, googly eyes, googol

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Everyday, not technical · Rated G