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google googlé
English
<dab!>
thumb|Logo of Google
Etymology
en Q95 :from google<id:100> 1
An accidental misspelling of en googol one followed by a hundred zeros, alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
en en-us-googol.ogg US
en en-uk-Google.ogg UK
en uːɡəl 2
en google googol
Proper noun
en Q95 en trademark A particular Internet company.
en Rishi Iyengar Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/tech/google-stadia-sge-shutdown 2021-02-01 Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB). https://web.archive.org/web/20220820173228/https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/tech/google-stadia-sge-shutdown/
en Q9366 en computing trademark Google Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name.
en He did some research on Google for his history project.
en 2017 Adam Kay This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor As a house officer you think your registrar is unimpeachably correct and clever, like God maybe, or Google, and you try not to bother them under almost any circumstance.
Derived terms
en Google machine de-Google de-Googled Doctor Google,Dr. Google Google Chat FANG,FAANG FGI Google Translate,Google translate,Google-translate,Google-Translate GAFAM GC Google debunker GCal ghit Go GIYF,giyf Gmail,Gmailer GOOG googlable Google Grouper Google Groupie google googleability,googlability googleable,Googleable Google bomb,googlebomb Google Doodle Google effect Google-fu Google is your friend Googlemania Googlemaniac Googlephone Googleplex Googler,googler Google stalk Google tax Googleverse googlewhack Google Doc googlewhacker googlewhacking Googley Googlian Googlise,Googlize Googlish,googlish googology Googlitis Jewgle JFGI LMGTFY Noogler quod google TGIF unGoogleable,ungooglable Xoogler Zoogler Goolag
Translations
In other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters.
Google
Afrikaans: af Google
Amharic: am ጉግል
Arabic: ar جُوجِل m, ar غُوغِل m, ar قُوقِل m
Hijazi Arabic: acw قوقل m gūgil
Armenian: hy Գուգլ
Assamese: as গুগল gugol
Azerbaijani: az Quql
Bambara: bm Gugolu
Belarusian: be Гугл m
Bengali: bn গুগল
Bhojpuri: bho गूगल
Bulgarian: bg Гу́гъл m
Burmese: my ဂူဂယ်
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 谷歌 guk1 go1
Mandarin: cmn 谷歌 Gǔgē, cmn 狗狗 Gǒugǒu dated
Chuvash: cv Кукӑль
Corsican: co Google m
Czech: cs Google m, cs Gúgl m humble, rare, cs Gůgl m humble, rare
Dinka: din Google
Esperanto: eo Guglo
Estonian: et Google
Fiji Hindi: hif Google
Finnish: fi Google
French: fr Google
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Google n
Galician: gl Google
Georgian: ka გუგლი
German: de Google n
Greek: el Γκουγκλ f n, el Google n
Gujarati: gu ગૂગલ n
Hebrew: he גוגל gugl
Hindi: hi गूगल m
Hungarian: hu Google
Indonesian: id Google
Inuktitut: iu ᒎᒐᓪ
Italian: it Google m
Japanese: ja グーグル Gūguru
Javanese: jv ꦒꦹꦒꦼꦭ꧀
Kannada: kn ಗೂಗಲ್
Kazakh: kk Гугл
Khmer: km ហ្គូហ្គល
Korean: ko ^구글
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb گووگڵ
Northern Kurdish: kmr Gûgil
Kyrgyz: ky Гугл
Lao: lo ກູໂກລ
Macedonian: mk Гугл m
Malay: ms Google
Jawi: ms ݢوݢل
Rumi: ms Google
Malayalam: ml ഗൂഗിൾ
Māori: mi Kūkara
Marathi: mr गूगल
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Гүүгл
Nepali: ne गुगल
Odia: or ଗୁଗଲ
Pashto: ps گووگل
Persian: fa گوگل gugel
Polish: pl Google m
Portuguese: pt Google m f
Punjabi: pa ਗੂਗਲ m
Romanian: ro Google
Russian: ru Гугл m, ru Гугль m
Sanskrit: sa गूगल n
Sardinian: sc Google m
Scots: sco Google
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Гугл m
Latin: sh Gugl m, sh Google m
Sinhalese: si ගූගල්
Spanish: es Google m
Swedish: sv Google
Sylheti: syl ꠉꠥꠉꠟ gugol
Tagalog: tl Google
Tahitian: ty Google
Tajik: tg Гугл
Tamil: ta கூகிள்
Telugu: te గూగుల్
Thai: th กูเกิล
Tigrinya: ti ጉግል
Tok Pisin: tpi Google
Turkish: tr Google
Ukrainian: uk Ґуґл m, uk Гугл m
Urdu: ur گوگل m gūgal
Uyghur: ug گۇگۇل
Vietnamese: vi Google
Yiddish: yi גוגל
See also
:Category:en:Google
en Android
en Frightful Five
Verb
+ +,~ing,~-ing
en google.
2 Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.
en Pari Noskin Taichert The Belen Hitch Albuquerque, N.M. w:University of New Mexico Press 2005 33 978-0-8263-3916-4 Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.
en w:Linda O. Johnston The Fright of the Iguana New York, N.Y. Berkley Prime Crime 2007 29 https://archive.org/details/frightofiguana00john/page/29/mode/1up?view=theater 978-0-425-21802-0 I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.
en w:Jerry Langton Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. 2008 133 978-0-470-15441-0 Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.
en Carol Adams; Douglas Buchanan; Kelly Gesch Anne Timmons Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen New York, N.Y.; London w:The Continuum International Publishing Group 2008 92 1 978-0-8264-2933-9 I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.
en w:David Gratzer Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives;One Hundred Tenth Congress; Second Session; Hearing Held in Washington, DC, July 16, 2008 Serial No. 110–37 Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office 16 July 2008 23 https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-110hhrg44037/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.
en w:Lloyd Kaufman Sara Antill; Kurly Tlapoyawa Direct Your Own Damn Movie! Burlington, Mass.; Abingdon, Oxon w:Focal Press 2009 2013 978-0-240-81052-2 There are several film festivals going on all over the world at any one time. Do some creative Google-ing and start sending your film out.
en Michael Schneider Companies and Airlines: Negotiation Positions – Negotiation Options Roland Conrady; Martin Buck Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010 w:Springer 2010 211 https://archive.org/details/trendsissuesingl0000itbc/page/211/mode/1up 978-3-642-10828-0 Googleing the name of your counterpart will most likely tell you even more: Facebook and the like will tell about hobbies, family etc. and hence give you valuable information on the motivational set of the person.
en Trevor Linsley Basic Electrical Installation Work 6th w:Newnes 2011 479 https://archive.org/details/basicelectricali0000lins_q6l8/page/479/mode/1up 978-0-08-096628-1 Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.
en Melinda Wells [pen name]: Linda Palmer Pie à la Murder New York, N.Y. Berkley Prime Crime 2011 113 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780425242216/page/113/mode/1up?view=theater 978-0-425-24221-6 He must have Googled or Binged me and found out about one of Phil Logan’s early publicity stunts where he had me suited up like a Los Angeles Dodger so his photographer could take a picture of me holding a baseball bat.
en Alan Corey Career Test Drive The Subversive Job Search: How to Overcome a Lousy Job, Sluggish Economy, and Useless Degree to Create a Six-Figure Career Pompton Plains, N.J. Career Press 2013 75 https://archive.org/details/subversivejobsea0000core/page/75/mode/1up?view=theater 978-1-60163-257-9 I Googled the company (then Binged it just to be sure), searched their job listings online, and tried to remember what job I actually applied for that generated this response.
en Lutishia Lovely The Perfect Affair New York, N.Y. Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2014 212 https://archive.org/details/perfectaffair0000love/page/212/mode/1up?view=theater 978-0-7582-8665-9 So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.
en Ellen J. Prager Behind the Jungle Wall The Shark Whisperer Minneapolis, Minn. Scarletta Junior Readers 2014 12 https://archive.org/details/sharkwhisperer0000prag/page/12/mode/1up?view=theater 978-1-938063-44-2 He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.
en w:Sarah Weeks Honey New York, N.Y. Scholastic Press 2015 53 https://archive.org/details/honey0000week/page/53/mode/1up?view=theater 978-0-545-46557-1 2014947734 “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”
Translations
to search the internet using the Google search engine google
en Google Websites
Danish
da:
Etymology
da en Google.
Proper noun
da proper noun genitive Googles
en Google
Derived terms
da google
da Computing Google Websites
Finnish
Etymology
fi en Google.
Pronunciation
guugle guugəl google
Proper noun
en Google trademark
en Google search engine
Declension
Googl a sg
Derived terms
fi googlata googlettaa
French
fr:
Etymology
fr :bor en:Google
fr en Google.
Pronunciation
Gougueul France
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Google.wav France
Proper noun
en Google
fr Google Websites
German
de:
Etymology
de :bor en:Google
de en Google.
Pronunciation
de /ˈɡuːɡəl/ [ˈɡuːɡəl] [ˈɡuːɡl̩]
de De-Google.ogg
de Goo gle
Proper noun
de proper noun n genitive Googles
en Google search engine
de 2004 Thomas Köhre Google: Alles finden und viele Tricks 9 Sicher haben Sie schon einmal den Ausspruch »Frag doch Google!« gehört und sich gefragt, was dieses Google eigentlich ist?
Derived terms
de googeln
Further reading
de Google Websites
Hungarian
hu:+ (company)
hu:+ (search engine)
Etymology
hu en Google.
Pronunciation
gúgl̩ gúgəl
hu Google
hu əl 2
Proper noun
hu proper noun
en Google search engine or company
Usage notes
Due to the difficulty posed by its word-final consonant cluster, it is sometimes localized informally (and somewhat jocularly) as hu gugli and this latter variant may serve as a basis for further derivations.
Declension
The Hungarian version of Google uses suffixes with hu -o- in Google’s Chrome browser.Text in the empty search field in a new page opened in Chrome: hu Keressen a Google-on, vagy írjon be egy URL-t Search Google or type a URL.
Google-o o - l sgGoogle- j jai sg
or
Google-ö ö - l sgGoogle- j jei sg
or
Google-e e - l sgGoogle- j jei sg
Derived terms
hu guglizható googleable
hu guglizhatatlan ungoogleable
(hu gugliz →) hu kigugliz, hu meggugliz, hu rágugliz to google up approximately
hu guglizik to google
References
Further reading
Kiguglizhatatlan at latillad.org
Collection of posts in this topic at moly.hu
Melyik a helyes? Google-lal vagy google-val? at gyakorikerdesek.hu
Google-on at e-nyelv.hu
Italian
it:
Etymology
it :bor en:Google
it en Google.
Pronunciation
Gùgol<r:DiPI>
Proper noun
m
en Google search engine or company
Derived terms
it googlare
References
it Google Websites
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :ubor en:Google + 1
Pronunciation
gugl Google
Proper noun
m-in
en Google
Usage notes
In some cases it may be indeclinable due to the presence of a foreign name.
Declension
Google Google'a Google'owi Google Google'em Google'u Google'u s
Derived terms
pl verb googlować
Further reading
pl trademarks
pl Computing Google Websites
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Google + 1
Pronunciation
gúgol gúgậl
Proper noun
m,f
en Google search engine or company
Usage notes
When referring to the search engine the noun is often treated as masculine, when referring to the company itself as feminine.Qual a diferença entre “o Google” e “a Google”? Portuguese Language Stack Exchange http://portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/487/qual-a-diferen%C3%A7a-entre-o-google-e-a-google November 05, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20260108112356/https://portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/487/qual-a-diferen%c3%a7a-entre-o-google-e-a-google 8 January 2026
Derived terms
pt googlear, pt googlar
References
pt Google
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :bor en:Google + 1
Pronunciation
gúgol<a:Latam> gúgul<a:Latam> gúguel<a:Spain> Goo.gle
Proper noun
m
en Google search engine or company
es Jordan Valinsky Google Maps cambiará el nombre del golfo de México por el de "golfo de Estados Unidos" w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/01/28/eeuu/google-maps-golfo-de-mexico-por-el-golfo-de-america-trax 2025-01-28 En una publicación en X, Google explicó que tiene una “práctica de larga data de aplicar cambios de nombre cuando se han actualizado en fuentes gubernamentales oficiales”. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312181327/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/01/28/eeuu/google-maps-golfo-de-mexico-por-el-golfo-de-america-trax 12 March 2026
es Computing Google Websites
Vietnamese
vi:
Etymology
vi en Google.
Pronunciation
gu gồ
Proper noun
en Google search engine or company
vi trademarks
vi Computing Google Websites