Billion vs Google - What's the difference?
billion | google |
A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
google
(cricket) To deliver googlies.
(cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
(Internet) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
(Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
''Xander'': Willow! She's 17!
''Willow : It's a search engine. }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-12-13 , title = (Maid In Manhattan) , people = (Jennifer Lopez) , role = Marisa , passage = "Google it." }} * {{quote-news , date = 2002-12-28 , first = Bill , last = Keller , authorlink = Bill Keller , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28KELL.html?pagewanted=2&todaysheadlines , title = Who's Sorry Now? , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , page = A-19 , accessdate = 2007-06-24 , passage = "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...." }}
As numerals the difference between billion and google
is that billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109 while google is misspelling of lang=en.As a verb google is
to deliver googlies.As a noun google is
an internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.As a proper noun Google is
a particular Internet company.billion
English
Numeral
(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
See also
* (short scale) Previous': million. ' Next trillion: * (long scale) Previous': milliard. ' Next billiard: * ISO prefix: giga-Derived terms
* billionaireEnglish
(wikipedia google)Etymology 1
From googly.Verb
(googl)Etymology 2
From Google.Noun
(en noun)- The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles , so I think it must be a real word.
Derived terms
* googlebomb * googles * googlewhack * googlishVerb
(googl)- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
- His name googles .
Quotations
* {{quote-web , last = Page , first = Larry , authorlink = Larry Page , date = 1998-07-08 , url = http://web.archive.org/web/19991009052012/www.egroups.com/group/google-friends/3.html , title = Google Search Engine: New Features , publisher = Google Friends Mailing List , accessdate = 2007-08-06 , passage = "Have fun and keep googling !" }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-10-15 , title = (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) , episode = , season = 7 , number = 4 , people = (Alyson Hannigan) and (Nicholas Brendon) , role = (Willow Rosenberg) and (Xander Harris) , passage = Willow'': Have you googled her yet?''Xander'': Willow! She's 17!
''Willow : It's a search engine. }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-12-13 , title = (Maid In Manhattan) , people = (Jennifer Lopez) , role = Marisa , passage = "Google it." }} * {{quote-news , date = 2002-12-28 , first = Bill , last = Keller , authorlink = Bill Keller , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28KELL.html?pagewanted=2&todaysheadlines , title = Who's Sorry Now? , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , page = A-19 , accessdate = 2007-06-24 , passage = "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...." }}
See also
* googlie, googly * madame linkmonger * JFGIExternal links
*www.google.com
