What does “googling” mean? Google can tell you. Coz the search giant has quietly rolled out Google Dictionary, which presents definitions and synonyms of exactly what you’d expect from a dictionary.
In addition to Google’s own database of definitions, looking up a word on the Dictionary website provides a list of definitions pulled from a variety of academically authoritative sources (and Wikipedia).
It has a few cool features. You can mark words with the star button and come back to them later, see a list of recent searches and switch to translator resources or dictionaries for other languages — not to be confused with Google Translate.
The company that might be hurt the most by Google’s new product is Answers.com. Previously, the “definition” button at the top right of all Google searches for words would direct users to entries on the Wikipedia-like Answers.com site. Now those links go to Google Dictionary, a less colorful, less cluttered interface.
So, what does it mean to “google”? According to the top result in Google Dictionary, taken from Princeton’s WordNet, the verb means:
Search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; “He googled the woman he had met at the party”; “My children are googling all day.”
LOL, are your children googling all day? Yeah, us too.
Also, another thing that we noticed in Google Search is when you run a search using define:Google there is now a page full of definitions being shown instead of the search results.
