pronunciation
How to pronounce Google in British English:
UK ['ɡu:ɡl]
How to pronounce Google in American English:
US ['ɡuɡl]
Word Origin
- google (v.)
- "to search (something) on the Google search engine," 2000 (do a google on was used by 1999). The domain google.com was registered in 1997. According to the company, the name is a play on googol and reflects the "mission" of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin "to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web." A verb google was an early 20c. cricket term in reference to a type of breaking ball, from googly.
Example
- 1. Motorola and google declined to comment .
- 2. Is google 's chrome browser mainstream ?
- 3. And microsoft , which lags behind google and yahoo !
- 4. Google owns the playing field .
- 5. So they turned to google .