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Google (verb) - Definition and Overview

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The verb to google or google it (yourself) is a neologism meaning "to perform a web search" (primarily with the Google web search engine). The coinage of the word is mainly due to the tremendous popularity of that search engine. The American Dialect Society chose the verb to google as the "most useful word of 2002".

Google itself does not like this usage, fearing the dilution and potential loss of its trademark like Yo-Yo, Xerox and escalator (see genericized trademark). The company went as far as to send a cease and desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of wordspy.com, a website that tracks neologisms.

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Example Usage of Google
springlabs: RAC - Google PPC Review--By direct2digital on Nov 10--Max Bid: Open to fair suggestions: I have a number o.. http://bit.ly/1nJGvZ
rcpffm: RT @azInternet: News Corp's #Murdoch warns he may #block #Google
DanBarker: just had a call from a company calling themselves 'a Google licensed partner in adwords and seo' - very misleading.
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