Google (verb)

Owing to the dominance of the Google search engine, to google has become a transitive verb. The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web, typically using the Google search engine. The American Dialect Society chose it as the "most useful word of 2002". It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.

This article is about the verb. For the use of the verb in cricket, see Googly. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).
"Googled" redirects here. For the book of the same name, see Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.
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