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Saturday, July 08, 2006
The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added Google as a verb July 8, 2006 Google became a verb in the Merriam-Webster dictionary yesterday. First founded in September 1998, Google quickly became a phenomenon, overtaking the then top search engines Yahoo and Lycos etc. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added Google, along with Googling, to their dictionary. According to the dictionary, correction pronunciation is goo-gle, with other forms including googled and googling. The word 'google' is defined as a transitive verb meaning to use the Google search engine to look for information on the Internet. Sources
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