Homophones

• Google
• googol

Verb

Infinitive to google

Third person singular googles

Simple past googled

Past participle googled

Present participle googling

to google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

1. (intransitive) (cricket) To deliver googlies.
2. (intransitive) (cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

Noun

Singular google

Plural googles

google (plural googles)

1. An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
2. A quick look (for something or someone), either on the Internet or in a place.

   I took a google round the room (= I quickly looked around the room but not very thoroughly.)

   He did a google (= He did a search on the Internet)

3. (Internet) A hit obtained by a search engine.

   The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

Derived terms

• kilogoogle
• megagoogle
• googleblock
• googlebomb
• Google ghost
• googledork
• google-proof
• googles
• googlewhack
• googlewhore
• googlicious
• googlish
• googlical

Related terms

• googol

Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009), the company has 20,164 full-time employees.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work, and as the most powerful brand in the world (according to the Millward Brown Group).

Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The unofficial company slogan, coined by former employee and Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit, is "Don't be evil". Criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, and censorship.