Googol vs. Google

Googol vs. Google — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Googol and Google

Googolnumeral

The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

Googleverb

To deliver googlies.

Googolnoun

a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Googleverb

To move as a ball in a googly.

Googleverb

(transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Googleverb

To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

His name googles.
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Googlenoun

An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.

Googlenoun

A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.