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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 13:44 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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

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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 13:57 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 14:03 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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.
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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 14:06 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 14:09 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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.
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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 14:21 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

Torsten wrote:
Here is on of them:
What does 'Google' mean?
http://www.english-test.net/e-business/8/index.html
Hi

Thank for the link.

Could anybody explain me the use of apostrophe in the first sentence of the article:
Quote:
Google's concentrates on its users following the principle «value over profit».
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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 14:26 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

Hi Tamara, many thanks for pointing out this typo, I've just changed it.
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Does "google" mean anything? Thu Nov 09, 2006 18:39 pm  Does "google" mean anything?
 

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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." Laughing

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

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