Thread: To google?

After reading the snide posts about using Google to find information about "Soviet History," I was wondering if there's a Russian equivalent for "to google." Of course this is slang -- and I'm not even sure if Google has the same mass audience appeal in Russia, since I think Yandex is pretty popular too.

I use Google pretty often! As far as I remember the subject about 'to google' was already brought up a while ago. Well, it seems to me that someone said then that the verb 'гуглить' existed. Honestly, I never use this word, so I can't say how common it is.

Look here or here

how bout www.google.ru?

OK, well judging by your links, I've reached two conclusions:
a)гуглить-погуглить is used by some small number of Russians (only 13-14.000 hits, so I would personally consider that to be a limited usage at this point).
b)Among those hits, however, it seems the bigget hit leaders are those that use the verb when referring to the English verb -- that is, it's essentially used as a translation, rather than a genuine, stand-alone Russian verb. I hope I phrased that in an understandable fashion?

Yes, you're right that the word 'гуглить' exists in Russian as a tranlation from English. However, most Russians who are familiar with the Internet would have no trouble understading what you mean if you said 'гулить' or 'погуглить'.

Originally Posted by ReDSanchous

Yes, you're right that the word 'гуглить' exists in Russian as a tranlation from English. However, most Russians who are familiar with the Internet would have no trouble understading what you mean if you said 'гулить' or 'погуглить'.

OK, good. I think all I'm getting at is that they probably wouldn't use it themselves -- just based on the frequency of hits I received, without it first being used by an English speaker.

to google = отправить запрос в поисковую систему гугл с целью получения релевантных результатов.

Example: I am going to google more about that tomorrow.
Я завтра собираюсь отправить несколько запросов в поисковую систему гугл с целью получения релевантных результатов об этом.

I'll give it a go too.

-I'll be googling on the web anyway tomorrow, so if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask.
-Завтра я буду гуглить интернет по-любак, поэтому, если тебе надо че-нить, не бойся спрашивать.

Это слово "гуглить"/"погуглить" еще не очень распространено..

И надеюсь, не будет.

Почему? :о)

Глупое слово.

Ну потому что звучит оно коряво как-то. Хотя к сорри уже все привыкли, кажется.

Да вроде нормальное слово

Оно что-то типа неестественного переноса с английского на русский. Не несёт нужной смысловой нагрузки. Слово для красоты. С успехом можно просто использовать "искать". Или звучит пресно?

У нас и так тысячи иностранных слов.. когда приживется, ты и забудешь, что оно тебе не нравилось

Then we should obviously say: яндексить по гуглу!!
Anybody like this word combination?

And I like the word гуглить - me and my brother always use it. Besides it's much easier to me to say гуглить than to say Google or search throgh Google in Russian because гуглить has soft л and Google hasn't.

Someone even song that - a big Afroamerican guy in white suit and sunglasses -

I like to Google-Google
I like to Google-Google
I like to Google-Google
You like to - Google!!

Originally Posted by ReDSanchous

Then we should obviously say: яндексить по гуглу!!
Anybody like this word combination?

Яндексить такого слова пока еще нету