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Google machine en · PROPN

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1. (humorous, informal) The Google search engine.
   • We have noted before that the first impulse of people upon hearing that a person is running for president is to head to the Google machine and ask it stupid questions. 2015 April 21, Philip Bump, “Marco Rubio answers most of the top Google questions about him. We answer the rest.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
   • Using the example of Spartacus again, do you think his prospects are ever going to be hitting the Google machine and looking for "best CPAs for manufacturing companies?" No! They're heavily engaged with his content and specific offerings in a way that negates the need for them to conduct a search. 2017, Kasim Aslam, The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing, Scottsdale, A.Z.: Stone Soup Hustler Publications, →ISBN, page 80:
   • Want more info? Type in "paleo diet," "primal eating," or "paleo 2.0" into the Google machine, and you'll have lots more to choose from, everything from busy moms cooking paleo for their family, to recipes, to the ever-popular "Paleo Hacks" where folks ask questions and the paleo community responds. 2011, Julie Mayfield, Charles Mayfield, Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking for a Gluten-Free Kitchen, Las Vegas, N.V.: Victory Belt Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 26, column 2:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Google, machine.
   • The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently. The machine knew the move wouldn't make sense to all those humans. Yes, it knew. And yet it played the move anyway, because this machine has seen so many moves that no human ever has. 2016 March 14, Cade Metz, “How Google’s AI Viewed the Move No Human Could Understand”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:

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