Google

Google
    n 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
    v 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"
    

google \goo"gle\ n. (Computers)
   To search for Web pages containing a word or phrase, using
   the Google web site (www.google.com); as, I googled
   "ontology" and found 351,000 references. [recent]
   [PJC]
    

google
 v.

   [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine,
   http://www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its
   significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many
   hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively
   irrelevant. The name `google' has additional flavor for hackers
   because most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten
   to the 100th power, famously first uttered as `googol' by a
   mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.
    

Google

   <World-Wide Web> The {World-Wide Web} {search engine} that
   indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by
   December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this
   index in less than a second.

   The site's name is apparently derived from "{googol}", but
   note the difference in spelling.

   The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
   to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
   Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
   leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
   Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
   Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
   dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
   blizzard?"

   (http://google.com/).

   (2001-12-28)