Google machine

Proper noun

the Google machine

1. (humorous, informal) The Google search engine.
   • 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
   • 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...
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...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