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Also, on June 15th, the OED added several new entries and updates were made to the dictionary. One list is available here. New terms include “yada yada,” “geocache,” and “Energizer bunny.”

The search-related news is that Google (as a verb) is now a “draft entry (June 2006)” in this legendary and authoritative English dictionary.

intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.
trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.

This is the second entry for Google as a verb. An early 20th century OED definition:

intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence googler, a googly bowler

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