Google's a word?

Ashley · 08-23-2004, 05:17 AM

This is in the dictionary!?

Quote:

1 entry found for google.
google

<World-Wide Web> 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/.

(2001-12-2

So google is a word? That just goes to show the extent of gogle's influence!

colwwcat · 08-23-2004, 09:28 AM

Wow, that's cool!

For those, who don't know that is taken from Dictionary.com

I think they have that, because Google and Dictionary.com are connected in some way ( you can see a definition for a word from Google-searching it.

Ashley · 08-23-2004, 10:41 AM

Yeah, but dictionary.com is full of spam. I'd be very surprised if the two were linked?

shawns from MA · 08-23-2004, 11:16 AM

Yeah, I've known about that for a long time >.>

tntcheats · 08-23-2004, 03:53 PM

Of course it's in Dictionary.com

I don't think they're related though.

stevewise · 08-23-2004, 04:02 PM

Yeah but Google asked dictionaries to take out the word because of trademark concerns.

Arisna · 08-23-2004, 08:38 PM

0_0

I just read that book a week ago, yet I didn't notice the use of Google there at all, even though I remember the end of that quote.

Felman · 08-23-2004, 11:12 PM

Wowsers.. Aint that neat?

Andylkl · 08-25-2004, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevewise

Yeah but Google asked dictionaries to take out the word because of trademark concerns.

That only affects WordSpy.com and not Dictionary.com.

Link:
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/1730921

Anyway, google's already a generic term, I googled for the article above... =)

xorht · 08-25-2004, 03:28 PM

i thought google already meant a million millions? or is it a thousand millions? or is it a thousand billions? ahh i forget. but i thought google meant some really big number, and thats why they called it google. because they could search up tons and tons of websites, more than yahoo, lycos, and altavista combined.

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08-23-2004, 09:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
colwwcat Noogle Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: USA Posts: 14 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Wow, that's cool! For those, who don't know that is taken from Dictionary.com I think they have that, because Google and Dictionary.com are connected in some way ( you can see a definition for a word from Google-searching it.

08-23-2004, 10:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
Ashley Master Googler Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 682 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yeah, but dictionary.com is full of spam. I'd be very surprised if the two were linked?

08-23-2004, 11:16 AM	#4 (permalink)
shawns from MA Junior Googler Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 34 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yeah, I've known about that for a long time >.>

08-23-2004, 03:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
tntcheats Master Googler Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cananada Posts: 539 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Of course it's in Dictionary.com I don't think they're related though.

08-23-2004, 04:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
stevewise Googler Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 75 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yeah but Google asked dictionaries to take out the word because of trademark concerns.

08-23-2004, 08:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
Arisna Senior Googler Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 125 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	0_0 I just read that book a week ago, yet I didn't notice the use of Google there at all, even though I remember the end of that quote.

08-23-2004, 11:12 PM	#8 (permalink)
Felman Senior Googler Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 148 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Wowsers.. Aint that neat?

08-25-2004, 03:28 PM	#10 (permalink)
xorht Noogle Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	i thought google already meant a million millions? or is it a thousand millions? or is it a thousand billions? ahh i forget. but i thought google meant some really big number, and thats why they called it google. because they could search up tons and tons of websites, more than yahoo, lycos, and altavista combined.

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