Other forms: googling; googled
To google is to use an online search engine to find some piece of information. You might google your favorite author to find out what other books she's written.
Searching the Internet for answers to questions, details about people, map directions, and other information is a common activity for most of us, and since the 1990s, most of us have come to use the verb google to describe it. The verb comes from the Google search engine, first active in 1997, although until about 2000 it was mostly used in the phrase "Do a google on."