| ' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors | — Megan Stein, Country Living, 17 Mar |
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| A whole new industry has sprung up around Google, including the new field of search-engine optimization or , which works to boost the ranking of a name or term in Google and other search-engine results | 2020 If a Google user has a question about Google, well, Google wants them to google it |
Then where are they going, if not to Faulkner and Achebe and Naipaul? — Joanne Mcneil, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan.
| A is the number 1 followed by a googol of zeros; the Googleplex is the Mountain View, California headquarters of Google | Whether we like it or not, we now live in a Google-centric world |
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| The team uses this process to identify new words and senses as they come into use | — Mj Slaby, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar |
Googol was coined in the 1930s and is attributed to the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
26| Example sentences are real-life examples selected to help people understand words in the context in which they are commonly used | 2004 Have you ever googled yourself, maybe late at night, when nobody else was around? British English and American English are only two of the many individual varieties of the language that share a common lexical core but develop their own unique vocabularies |
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| Google is the word that is more common to us now, and so it is sometimes mistakenly used as a noun to refer to the number 10 100 | " "She found the cat |
In addition to British and American English, our dictionary documents many further varieties, including forms spoken in Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, Nigeria, the Philippines, and the West Indies.
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