GOOGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Google mean? 

• GOOGLE (noun)
  The noun GOOGLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GOOGLE used as a noun is very rare.

• GOOGLE (verb)
  The verb GOOGLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GOOGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

search engine (a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet))

Derivation:

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

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

• GOOGLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

My children are googling all day

Hypernyms (to "google" is one way to...):

explore; research; search (inquire into)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

The newly-discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

Using Google Earth, the team selected nine sites that contained relatively large marsh areas likely to experience drought-associated grass die-offs.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

(I am @Astrologyzone on both platforms.) According to Google Analytics, 52% of you—my readers—are based outside the US, so I would love to know.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Google said Android operating systems would receive the updates in the software update scheduled to be made available on November 6.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

However, the quantum computers which Google, IBM and others are developing are based on superconducting loops, which are complex circuits and, like all quantum systems, are highly fragile.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

The map also provides a foundation for the upcoming new version of Google's ocean maps; it will fill large voids between shipboard depth profiles.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

Researchers from Google claimed to have reached ‘quantum supremacy’, the point at which a quantum computer can perform calculations beyond the capacity of the most powerful supercomputers.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

As I write this to you, I am thinking of the old black-and-white 1960s TV show Dragnet and Sargent Joe Friday, whose signature phrase was, Just the facts, ma’am. (According to Google, however, Sargent Friday never said those exact words, but everyone attributes the line to Sargent Friday.) Anyway, if you keep Joe Friday’s words in mind, you will do really well—focus on the facts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)