google

Etymology 1

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

verb

1. (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
2. (intransitive)
   1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
   2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

Etymology 2

of the Google Search home page.]] From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

noun

1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
   The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

verb

1. (transitive)
   1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
      Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
      Have fun and keep googling! This is the first occurrence of the term in print. 8 July 1998, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 1999-10-09
      Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine. 15 October 2002, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon)
      Google it. 13 December 2002, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez)
      Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […] 28 December 2002, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-23, page A-19
   2. (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.
2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
   His name googles.

Etymology 3

See googol.

num

1. Misspelling of googol.