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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>google</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Good-Thing.html" title="Good Thing"/><link rel="next" href="google-juice.html" title="google juice"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">google</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Good-Thing.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="google-juice.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="google"/><dt xmlns="" id="google"><b>google</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_top">http://www.google.com</a>. Google is
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additional flavor for hackers because most know that it was copied from a
mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as
&#8216;googol&#8217; by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Good-Thing.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="google-juice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Good Thing<6E></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>google juice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>