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google | googleplex |

As nouns the difference between google and googleplex

is that google is an internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine while googleplex is misspelling of googolplex.

As a verb google

is to deliver googlies.

As a numeral google

is misspelling of lang=en.

As a proper noun Google

is a particular Internet company.

google

English

(wikipedia google)

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

(googl)
  • (cricket) To deliver googlies.
  • (cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

    • Etymology 2

    From Google.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles , so I think it must be a real word.
    Derived terms
    * googlebomb * googles * googlewhack * googlish
    Related terms
    * googol

    Verb

    (googl)
  • To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
    • Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
  • (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
    • I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
  • (Internet) To be locatable in a search of 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 * JFGI

    External links

    * www.google.com

    Etymology 3

    Numeral

    (en noun)
    • ----

    googleplex

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • * 1939 , Sydney Clark, Jacqueline Clark, Hawaii with Sydney A. Clark
    • A googleplex , if it has slipped your mind, is a figure represented by the numeral 1 followed by a million zeros and then squared.
  • * 2004 , Hugh Downs, Letter to a Great Grandson
    • The air will be filled with raw and encrypted information, and ever smaller wireless units will be processing googleplex gigabytes of information...
  • * 2007 , James Gardner, The Intelligent Universe
    • ...the deus ex machina that selects our cosmic code from the googleplex of alternatives that lurk in the mathematical recesses of the theory.