Definition of "google"

(transitive) 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”).  examples

(intransitive)

1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.  examples

2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.  examples

An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.  examples

(dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.  examples

(transitive)

1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Have fun and keep googling!This is the first occurrence of the term in print.

     1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups‎, archived from the original on 9 October 1999

   • Willow: Have you googled her yet?Xander: Willow! She's 17!Willow: It's a search engine.

     2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon)

   • Google it.

     2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez)

   • Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

     2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 23 March 2021, page A-19

2. (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.  examples

(intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.  examples

Misspelling of googol.  examples