Etymology

google

goog·le
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Today it means: 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”). Full definition →

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google · verb1

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

google · noun, verb2

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

google · numeral3

See googol.

Google · proper noun, verb4

  1. Englishgoogol
  2. Englishgoogle
  3. English todayGoogle

An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.