Is "google" now a verb? - Page 2 - Ajarn Forum

defender · 8th May 2008, 03:00

Correct, but then you knew that 'cos you googled it

Of course it's a verb and unlike many 'real' or 'traditional language' verbs it's one that almost every English speaker on the planet understands ..... unlike procrastinate or blather for example

Killing Me Softly 101 · 8th May 2008, 06:23

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Originally Posted by Lor Ling

Wasn't that a googol?

googol - Google Search

Yes it was - I just googled it!

You win one debate point and a greenie.

Here's a page on the Web that tells about the origin of the words
googol and googolplex:

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.html

This says:

"googol

a unit of quantity equal to 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). The
googol was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-
1955) in 1938. According to the story, Kasner asked his nephew Milton
Sirotta, who was then 8 years old, what name he would give to a really
large number, and "googol" was Milton's response. Kasner also defined
the googolplex, equal to 10^googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of
zeroes. These inventions caught the public's fancy and are often
mentioned in discussions of very large numbers."

A slightly different version is in

Googolplex
The Googolplex Page

I guess the term was adapted from this word. Thanx for the fax.

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Originally Posted by defender

Correct, but then you knew that 'cos you googled it

You win one debate point and a greenie too, defender.

DunceCap · 8th May 2008, 09:39

the modern venacular of the word google is that it is a verb, and a noun

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

Eric · 8th May 2008, 09:57

Would you mind googling that up for me?

bet · 8th May 2008, 10:23

google has always been a verb, at least since 1907.

8ball · 8th May 2008, 10:23

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Originally Posted by DunceCap

the modern venacular of the word google is that it is a verb, and a noun

Yes indeed

Quote:

Originally Posted by DunceCap

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

I luv googling.

bet · 8th May 2008, 10:35

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Originally Posted by OED

google, v.

("gu;g(@)l) [Back-formation from googly n.]

intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence "googler, a googly bowler.

1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having ‘googled’ to no purpose from the ‘nursery’ end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine+was out to a semi-yorker, which also ‘googled’. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett+can spin the ball and google it.

Voila

WhatsGrammar? · 8th May 2008, 10:45

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Originally Posted by Killing Me Softly 101

Google was a math word before Google latched on to it. 1 followed by 100 zeros. A very large number.

A "google" is the number 10^100. A "googleplex" is an even larger number-- internet sources. I already knew this but just looked it up to be certain.

Hahahhaha. Google has never been a math word.

Have a green Lor Ling.

bet · 8th May 2008, 10:52

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Originally Posted by WhatsGrammar

Hahahhaha. Google has never been a math word.

Yes, but googol has:

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Originally Posted by OED

googol

("gu;gQl) [Arbitrary: see quot. 1940.]

A fanciful name (not in formal use) for ten raised to the hundredth power (10100). Also "googolplex [cf. -plex in multiplex, complex], a name for ten raised to the power of a googol.

1940 Kasner & Newman Math. & Imagination i. 23 The name ‘googol’ was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it.+ At the same time that he suggested ‘googol’ he gave a name for a still larger number: ‘Googolplex’. Ibid. 25 A googol is 10100; a googolplex is 10 to the googol power. 1945 Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 126/2 George Brown+was the only one who came within a googol of light-years of guessing what they were. 1953 Time 6 July 68/2 Parade+spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the ‘googol’. 1966 Ogilvy & Anderson Excurs. Number Theory ix. 111 The googol+can easily be written out in full in about two lines of print.

kikiat · 8th May 2008, 11:16

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Originally Posted by Cyrille

Sorry?

Examples please.

Would like some links to that too, please.

(A polite way of saying 'what a pile of bull crap'

)

caught it in the news a long time ago but why don't you try googling : "google prevent verb" and see for yourself how much bull crap it is

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o what the hell, here is a copy paste for yer lazy arse

Google Fighting Verb Usage
Google Fighting Verb Usage

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006;
-- Andy Beal |
SEW reports on Google’s attorney’s attempts to stop media using “google” as a verb.
According to the (hand addressed) letter sent to the Washington Post Google has come up with some examples or suggestions to linguistically aid us in the future. What is appropriate is “He ego-surfs on the Google search engine to see if he’s listed in the results.”, and inappropriate language is “He googles himself.”
Well they need to get on the phone to T-Mobile, as I spotted this at DFW airport…

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Google trademark lawyers protest Google being used as a verb Make You Go Hmm

Google trademark lawyers protest Google being used as a verb

search engines — by TDavid @ 9:59 am PST New!

(Hmm, no ratings yet)

I’m not a trademark lawyer and don’t pretend to understand the intracies of trademark law. I also own Google stock. Neither of these truths should prevent me from exercising common sense which the following story seems to be lacking — on the Google side, via Washington Post:

Google, evidently, took offense to this passage in last month’s article: “Google, the word, now takes its place alongside the handful of proper nouns that have moved beyond a particular product to become descriptors of an entire sector — generic trademarks.” This characterization of Google, the letter warned, is “genericide” and should be avoided. Such letters are cranked out every day by companies keen on protecting their trademarks.

I do understand that from a legal perspective a brand must be protected or the trademark can be invalidated, but wouldn’t your name being treated as a verb strengthen the brand? Maybe I’m missing this one completely and need some lawyer readers to school me on why this dilutes the brand for people and publications to use Google as a verb?
They aren’t going to use Google as a verb to discuss something that isn’t related to Google (ok, maybe some writers will), so it all ties back into the brand. Normally, I would google search Google for the answer.
Somebody get Professor Strunk. Omit needless words!

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anywho, to who goes the green on this one?

crew · 8th May 2008, 13:20

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Originally Posted by DunceCap

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

Googling has been helping ignoramuses look well-informed for over a decade now.

Bubba · 8th May 2008, 15:22

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Originally Posted by Cyrille

Examples please

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Originally Posted by King Lear

He childed as I fathered

nouns to verbs

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Originally Posted by Trolius & Cressida

Kingdomed Achilles in commotion rages

noun to adjective

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Originally Posted by Othello

To lip a wanton in a secure couch/And to suppose her chaste!

noun to verb and adjective to noun

- though for the last one I'm pretty sure that wanton started off a noun and became and adjective, so maybe Shakespeare was using it as would have been normal in his day.

Lor Ling · 8th May 2008, 15:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikiat

but wouldn’t your name being treated as a verb strengthen the brand?

I'd have thunk so (and I can say that in all confidence, without even having to google it first!)