Etymology

ghit

G2H4I1T1
First used 2004.
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The story

Contraction of Google + hit. Coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl. See the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 2004. Contraction of Google + hit, a hit obtained using the search engine Google.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.