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The act of using the Google search engine is known colloquially as googling. Owing to the dominance of the Google search engine, [1] to google has become a transitive verb. [2] The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web, typically using the Google search engine. [3]
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...
"Don't be evil" is Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct. [1] [2] [3] [4]Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension .
A Google web search for: "alex trebek shows "Did you mean: who is alex trebek" in reference to Jeopardy!'s rule of answers being in the form of a question. [62]"assistant regional manager" shows "Did you mean: assistant to the regional manager", referencing The Office.
Google voluntarily removed links from google.ca, the main site used by Canadians, but the court granted a temporary injunction applying to all Google sites across the world. [45] Google argued that Canadian law could not be imposed across the world but was given until June 17, 2014, to comply with the court's ruling. [46]
Participants at Googlewhack.com discovered the sporadic "cleaner girl" bug in Google's search algorithm where "results 1–1 of thousands" were returned for two relatively common words [4] such as Anxiousness Scheduler [5] or Italianate Tablesides. [6] Googlewhack went offline in November 2009 after Google stopped providing definition links.
In August 2018, Google added bilingual capabilities to the Google Assistant for existing supported languages on devices. Recent reports say that it may support multilingual support by setting a third default language on Android Phone. [78] Speech-to-Text can recognize commas, question marks, and periods in transcription requests. [79]