Google vs Stupidity - What's the difference?
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google
(cricket) To deliver googlies.
(cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
(Internet) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
(Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
''Xander'': Willow! She's 17!
''Willow : It's a search engine. }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-12-13 , title = (Maid In Manhattan) , people = (Jennifer Lopez) , role = Marisa , passage = "Google it." }} * {{quote-news , date = 2002-12-28 , first = Bill , last = Keller , authorlink = Bill Keller , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28KELL.html?pagewanted=2&todaysheadlines , title = Who's Sorry Now? , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , page = A-19 , accessdate = 2007-06-24 , passage = "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...." }} (uncountable) The property of being stupid.
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, title= (countable) An act that is stupid.
As nouns the difference between google and stupidity
is that google is an internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine while stupidity is the property of being stupid.As a verb google
is to deliver googlies.As a numeral google
is misspelling of lang=en.As a proper noun Google
is a particular Internet company.English
(wikipedia google)Etymology 1
From googly.Verb
(googl)Etymology 2
From Google.Noun
(en noun)- The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles , so I think it must be a real word.
Derived terms
* googlebomb * googles * googlewhack * googlishVerb
(googl)- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
- His name googles .
Quotations
* {{quote-web , last = Page , first = Larry , authorlink = Larry Page , date = 1998-07-08 , url = http://web.archive.org/web/19991009052012/www.egroups.com/group/google-friends/3.html , title = Google Search Engine: New Features , publisher = Google Friends Mailing List , accessdate = 2007-08-06 , passage = "Have fun and keep googling !" }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-10-15 , title = (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) , episode = , season = 7 , number = 4 , people = (Alyson Hannigan) and (Nicholas Brendon) , role = (Willow Rosenberg) and (Xander Harris) , passage = Willow'': Have you googled her yet?''Xander'': Willow! She's 17!
''Willow : It's a search engine. }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-12-13 , title = (Maid In Manhattan) , people = (Jennifer Lopez) , role = Marisa , passage = "Google it." }} * {{quote-news , date = 2002-12-28 , first = Bill , last = Keller , authorlink = Bill Keller , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28KELL.html?pagewanted=2&todaysheadlines , title = Who's Sorry Now? , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , page = A-19 , accessdate = 2007-06-24 , passage = "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...." }}
See also
* googlie, googly * madame linkmonger * JFGIExternal links
*www.google.com
Etymology 3
stupidity
English
Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(wikipedia stupidity)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
