google

1. 1.

   a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search

   Broadersearch engine

   trademark

1. 1.

   search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine

   “He googled the woman he had met at the party”

   “My children are googling all day”

   Broaderresearch

   computer science

Other forms of google

plural

googles·

past tense

googled·

present participle

googling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about google

What does google mean?

google means "a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in google?

google has 2 syllables: goo-gle. The stress falls on "goo". In IPA it is /ˈɡuɡəl/.

Is google a common word?

google is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.