Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Cyberlexicon

google
verb
(a play on the word googol, reflecting the immense amount of information to be found on the web)
To search the web with a standard search engine such as Google® or Yahoo!
"google." Worthless Words for the Day. Michael F. Fischer, 2005. Answers.com GuruNet Corp. 05 Oct. 2005. http://www.answers.com/topic/google-verb

Googol? Indeed.

googol
noun
The number 10 raised to the power 100, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
"googol." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com GuruNet Corp. 05 Oct. 2005. http://www.answers.com/topic/googol