Google noun. a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search. google verb. 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".

Google, on the other hand, is the name of a search engine as well as a verb that refers to searching the Internet using the Google search engine. (The search engine’s name was inspired by the number: the founders of Google chose the name to reflect their mission “to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.”)