I wonder when google was _first_ used as a verb
Aokay (David G. Bryce)
I _have_ looked at
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google%22%2Bfirst%2Bverb&btnG=Google+Search
and some links found there.
aokay
Donna Richoux
> Also a noun (as in doing a google).
>
> I _have_ looked at
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google%22%2Bfirst%2Bverb&btnG=Goog
> le+Search and some links found there.
But you didn't get an answer that way, did you. I mean, the first hit
uses "first" in the phrase "before a first date," for Pete's sake.
The Google Advanced Groups Search is a good way to find when words were
first used on the Internet. The infinitive "to google" is tedious to
search for, as it is mixed in with the similar "go to Google," "thanks
to Google," etc. But a search on "I googled" quickly brings up some
oldest posts. Setting aside one that is the ogle-goggle sense, and one
that is purely wordplay, the oldest post I see that uses "I googled" in
a straightforward way is:
From: Mateusz Tilewski
(nospam...@nospam.neurotic.nospam.dk_(REMOVE_"nospa
m"))
Subject: Hercules Terminator 128/3D monitor problem
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x
Date: 2000/01/31
... I googled for a solution, and searched other places too - some
people have posted on newsgroups with a similiar problem with that
card, but none seemed to get an answer.
I notice that our own Magical/jc has a fairly early contender, with:
From: mag...@rahul.net (mag...@rahul.net)
Subject: Re: Totally Official aue Summer Doldrums
Competition Teaser #237
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Date: 2000/07/16
I say "Did you google for that?", or "You should google on
'webmonkey'.". Anyone who knows Google knows what I'm suggesting.
If they don't know Google, saying "Search for 'webmonkey' on
Google." requires additional explanation about what Google is, so I
might as well explain "google for that" at the same time.
It is remarkable to see how many "I googled"s there are in the first
part of 2002, compared to almost none two years before. The verb has
caught on.
--
Best -- Donna Richoux
Mark Brader
> The Google Advanced Groups Search is a good way to find when words were
> first used on the Internet.
Well, on Usenet, anyway.
> The infinitive "to google" is tedious to search for, as it is mixed in
> with the similar "go to Google," "thanks to Google," etc. But a search
> on "I googled" ....
> the oldest post I see that uses "I googled" in a straightforward way is:
>
> From: Mateusz Tilewski
> ...
> Date: 2000/01/31
I searched on "googling". There are numerous hits in other senses over
the early years, most commonly in reference to adult/baby interactions,
but we already know time period to look at, which makes the problem
tractable. It turns out that "googling" was used about 6 months before
the above:
From: Deirdre MacKenzie <dei...@netidea.com>
Subject: Re: Alpha Intrusions\more sites, more thoughts
Date: 1999/08/01
Message-ID: <37A494...@netidea.com>
Newsgroups: alt.med.fibromyalgia
Responding to another poster who mentioned having used google and who
gave its URL, Deirdre wrote:
| I tried your google.com search for "sleep disorders" (sometimes
| it helps to just back up and start all over again) and I found
| this interesting link with lots of links when you get there:
| a great variety of options for "googling" (?).
Note the "(?)", serving as something like an extra level of scarequoting!
--
Mark Brader "How diabolically clever: a straightforward message!
Toronto Only a genius could have thought of that."
m...@vex.net -- Maxwell Smart (Agent 86)
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Bob Cunningham
[ . . . ]
>It is remarkable to see how many "I googled"s there are in the first
>part of 2002, compared to almost none two years before. The verb has
>caught on.
Next, look for "googlize" or "googlate", any day now. Or maybe
"googlify"?
Googlation is the key to all English usage problems, and
if you haven't googlated, you haven't really tried to
find an answer.
I don't like it much, but maybe somebody will.
Richard Maurer
<< [Aokay (David G. Bryce)]
I wonder when google was _first_ used as a verb
Also a noun (as in doing a google). >>
Interesting that it already has two senses as a verb.
(1) The normal general search sense
(2) Quick background check on a person
As far as being used in the wild,
you can't go back much farther than 1999,
when Google was putting out its first commercial beta version.
On the other hand, you might find earlier incarnations of the word
in Stanford internal mail.
Found a couple for you,
including an interesting intermediate version -- google.com as a verb.
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From: coffee (apa...@127.0.0.1)
Subject: Re: Be All You Can Be!
Newsgroups: alt.suicide.holiday
View: Complete Thread (19 articles) | Original Format Date: 1999/09/05
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, chinaperson wrote:
[...]
> What's this about being able to leave before you've been in for 6
> months? Can you tell me more? I guess l should do a google on that.
> My recruiter never mentioned *anything* about leaving.
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From: Harry Travis (htr...@ibm.net)
Subject: Re: Flowcharts?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Date: 1999/07/03
In <wnaqnavryffbasnyhaznvyg...@news1.telia.com>, on
07/02/99
at 08:50 PM, "Jan Danielsson" <Jan.Dan...@falun.mail.telia.com>
said:
[...]
Suggest you google.com to find it. There was also a dos version (V2.0)
that may still be available. Very fast, but, of course, much less
flexible. Fits on 1 diskette, I recall.
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From: ma...@depressive.co.uk (ma...@depressive.co.uk)
Subject: Re: cover for BMWs: it pays to be clear.
Newsgroups: uk.local.london
Date: 1999/08/23
Why trawl when you can Google?
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Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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Ray Heindl
news:01c1e42c$04d13d00$9702510c@default:
> Found a couple for you,
> including an interesting intermediate version -- google.com as a
> verb.
[snip]
> Suggest you google.com to find it. There was also a dos version
> (V2.0) that may still be available. Very fast, but, of course,
> much less flexible. Fits on 1 diskette, I recall.
This looks like it might have been a typo, mainly because I've never
seen "x.com" used as a verb, though I'm sure it's only a matter of
time. Maybe it should have been "Suggest you use google.com..." or
something of the sort.
--
Ray Heindl
Richard Maurer
I wonder when google was _first_ used as a verb
Here is another early one:
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Message 2 in thread From: Dan (dm...@saruman.wizard.net)
Subject: Re: Software Installation
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
View this article only Date: 1999/02/23
one of the first resources you should be referring to is the linux
documentation project. there is tons of information on all kinds of
subjects there. google for it...
[...]
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Philosophical question:
Does it count if nobody picks up on it -- if there is a gap
of several months until somebody else uses it?
Aokay (David G. Bryce)
aokay