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Googliath

Googliath proper noun: a personification of Google, a large American technology corporation.

Proper noun

Googliath

  1. (rare) A personification of Google, a large American technology corporation.
    • His findings showed that doing some pretty basic queries on Google resulted in his PVRBlog being listed at the very top of the results. He then went on to state that maybe it’s time to instate a new algorithm that didn’t favor weblogs. [see title]2003 December 31, Brandon Olejniczak, “Weblogging vs. The Googliath”, in Digital Web Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2004
    • Internet entrepreneur Nick Brummitt got such a bee in his bonnet about paying so much money to Google for advertising that he's set up a new online directory to rival the American monster. […] It appears that even David can't go to battle without his Googliath.2009 May 31, Margareta Pagano, “David takes on Googliath for a slice of the profits in the online shopping world”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2012

Examples of Googliath in a sentence

  • It is time for Google to grow out of its adolescent view of the world and accept that David has become Googliath, and thus a bit suspicious, and that its decisions will shape the digital revolution.2010 February 26, Antonia Senior, “Now Google is Goliath it really must grow up”, in The Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2026:
  • Googliath [section title] ¶ Google is one of the most powerful corporations in the world.2019 Summer, Jay Tuck, “Mankind's Greatest Challenge: Artificial Intelligence”, in The Antioch Review, volume 77, number 3, →DOI, page 452:

Origin of Googliath

Blend of Google + Goliath, after the biblical giant Goliath.

Questions about Googliath

What does Googliath mean?
Googliath means a personification of Google, a large American technology corporation.
How do you use Googliath in a sentence?
It is time for Google to grow out of its adolescent view of the world and accept that David has become Googliath, and thus a bit suspicious, and that its decisions will shape the digital revolution.
What part of speech is Googliath?
Googliath is a proper noun.

Words near Googliath in the dictionary

  1. googlewhacks
  2. googley
  3. googley eye
  4. googley eyes
  5. Googlian
  6. Googliath
  7. googlier
  8. googlies
  9. googliest
  10. googling
  11. googling up

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