Google

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  google \goo"gle\ n. (Computers)
     To search for Web pages containing a word or phrase, using
     the Google web site (www.google.com); as, I googled
     "ontology" and found 351,000 references. [recent]
     [PJC]



From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  google v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine,
     `http://www.google.com'. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its
     significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many
     hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively
     irrelevant. The name `google' has additional flavor for hackers because
     most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the
     hundredth power, famously first uttered as `googol' by a mathematician's
     nine-year-old nephew.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Google
       
           The {World-Wide Web} {search engine} that
          indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by
          December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this
          index in less than a second.
       
          The site's name is apparently derived from "{googol}", but
          note the difference in spelling.
       
          The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
          to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
          Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
          leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
          Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
          Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
          dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
          blizzard?"
       
          {Home (http://www.google.com/)}.
       
          (2001-12-28)