Does "google" mean anything?

[moniker]

May I know: does "google" mean anything? The dictionaries don't give me any meaning.

Thanks

[Torsten]

Hi Moniker,

There are lots of webpages where you can find information on the origin of the word 'google'. Here is on of them:
What does 'Google' mean?
http://www.english-test.net/e-business/8/index.html
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[moniker]

Thank you Torsten. It was properly you writing to me "if you google your phrase", so I just wondered if you meant searching my phrase through the google or it is something else.

[Torsten]

Yes exactly. To 'google a phrase' means to put that phrase into quotation marks and search it on Google. For more information on this, please click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb)
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[moniker]

Thank you Torsten. It was properly you writing to me "if you google your phrase", so I just wondered if you meant searching my phrase through the google or it is something else.

[Tamara]

[Torsten]

Hi Tamara, many thanks for pointing out this typo, I've just changed it.
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[Yankee]

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In the Wikipedia write-up of the word googol there is an interesting little explanation about how Google came to be spelled the way it is spelled:

"The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake on a cheque that investors wrote to the founders."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

Amy
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