'Googling how to manipulate this footage': Murder conviction in jeopardy after jury allegedly searched how to enhance 'pivotal' surveillance video during deliberations Lawyers for a convicted murderer want an Oregon judge to throw out their client’s guilty verdict after a juror came forward saying the jury enhanced video footage in order to come to its decision. 12/12/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link
Should capitals be used when verbing trademarks? Google is still in the works; one may find that its capitalization is not consistent, hence, googling and Googling. I must add that using g/Google as a verb is not yet considered formal. Some quick dictionary research will reveal that it is standard practice not to capitalize proprietary nouns-turned-verbs. 01/10/2025 - 10:15 pm | View Link
meaning As @Hugo points out OED has a mention of 'google eyes' from 1540. This comes from the 'The Byrth of Mankynde", the English translation of Eucharius Roslin's Der Rosengarten, a very popular book on childbirth and care of infants first published in German in 1512. 01/10/2025 - 1:07 am | View Link
word choice With the popularity and ubiquity of Google, it has become a verb to describe "searching for something online" and it appears in conversations and informal writing. 01/9/2025 - 8:14 pm | View Link
meaning I wonder if the usage of googling is proper in the following sentence. I've done a bit of googling and review walkthroughs about this product X available in the market. I have seen this word used over the internet in some articles. Hence I have used the above line in my blog. Before publishing the post, I'd like to check out if that word exists ... 01/8/2025 - 11:36 pm | View Link
Is there a more general term for "googling" that doesn't imply a ... If I'm doing extensive googling for something at work, I usually refer to it as "researching". As in "I researched cute kittens online and several sites agree that torbies are the cutest". Research suggests that I compared and compiled the results from one or more web searches, rather than did one search and opened the first result that seemed ... 01/7/2025 - 10:04 pm | View Link
Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, announced Tuesday that her cancer is in remission, nearly a year after she publicly revealed her diagnosis.
“It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focussed on recovery,” she said in a post on X on Jan. 14.
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Middleton first shared her cancer diagnosis in March 2024, saying that she began treatment in late February and was undergoing what she called “preventative” chemotherapy.
With the TikTok ban looming in less than a week, creators are scrambling to find a replacement. Many have simply migrated over to TikTok’s direct American competitors, like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. But another unlikely challenger has emerged: the Chinese-owned Xiaohongshu, a social media app often referred to as Red Note in English.
After living in the Pacific Palisades for three generations, Chad Comey’s family was not scared of fire.
“I’d always imagined that the earthquake would do us in,” says Comey, who lives with and cares for his disabled parents. “There was a fire in 2019 in the Palisades. My parents did not evacuate for that fire.
In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have.
That decision was a last resort for Erin, who asked to be identified only by her first name for privacy. Her health had deteriorated after she caught COVID-19 nearly a year earlier; the virus left her with pain, fatigue, rapid weight loss, digestive problems, and vertigo.
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U. S. leaders and their spouses, but former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will be there.
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Laura Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join their husbands for the Jan.
It’s not easy to become a taxi driver in London. Since 1865, to operate a taxi, drivers have had to pass what’s known as “the Knowledge,” a grueling test of a person’s memory of the thousands of streets, landmarks, and driving routes within the city. Students typically study for years to prepare for the Knowledge test, which is considered one of the most difficult examinations a human being can undertake.