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googleable

Something that is able to be found on the popular Internet search engine Google.
Mrs. Kim's husband is googleable.
by Lisa November 12, 2004
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Google Scholar

Someone who believes that easy access to internet articles on a subject is the same as personal, academic, mastery of a subject. Someone who believes that upvotes and popularity of information on the internet is enough for that information to be trustworthy. Someone who disdains or ignores academic journals, primary sources, and university publications because the headlines in a search engine or social media have taught them all they need to know.
Another student cited wikipedia in my informal logic class. All the recent high school grads start off as Google Scholars.
by jin-roh May 20, 2016
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googleability

The ability of a Google search to find web pages for the person being searched.

Profesional, personal or social networking web pages will be pages listed in the search.
The googleability of her name makes it easy to find her My Space web pages.
by B. Foster April 28, 2008
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Google pollution

A phenomenon in which toxic search engine results have a cumulative and systemic negative effect on the efficacy of the search engine. Search engine results trending towards decreasing accuracy, often caused by commercial websites attaining top listings through the use of search engine optimization (SEO) methods. Highly ranked search engine spam.
After sifting through 34 pages of Google pollution, I finally found a useful query result.
by OkieLoki February 28, 2009
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Googlebender

1) A googlebender is someone who refers to google to get information at all times. Normally they do not retain what they learn, because the information is instantly available again to them later. Usually seen browsing google on their cellphones, laptops, wristwatches, computers, and any other electronic device that google may have invaded.

2) May also be used to describe someone who instantly uses google to find anything they need on the web.
If it wasn't for the internet, that googlebender wouldn't know anything.

How did you find that video?
I'm quite the googlebender.
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Google-Imaged

The verb defining the act of looking something up on Google Image Search.
Bob: "Lindsay Lohan doesn't have red hair!"
Jane: "Uh, yeah she does, I just google-imaged it."
by erikaaface77 September 2, 2009
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Google Poser

This term refers to a person who pretends to have already known facts, events or definitions that they secretly Google on their phone or computer over the course of the conversation.
Jane and John are having a phone conversation about a topic that they both know very little about. Minutes into the conversations John suddenly becomes an expert on the topic. John is such a “Google poser” because he is passing off Google knowledge as his own!
by Princess Pa-Tina January 7, 2010
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