Google vs Boggle - What's the difference?
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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...." }} To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
* Barrow
* Glanvill
To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
(US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
(obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
As verbs the difference between google and boggle
is that google is while boggle is to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.English
(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
Etymology 3
boggle
English
Verb
(boggl)- He boggled at the surprising news.
- The mind boggles .
- Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
- We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
- The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
- The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
- (Howell)