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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:24am on 20/09/2006
What about John D. Loudermilk's song, Google Eye?
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/g/googleeye.shtml
The word must have meant something before the ubiquitous search engine used it.
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:10am on 20/09/2006
I googled for 'Bellinghman' a while back. I discovered a reference to the US city Bellingham. Now, I can understand me making that typo, since I type my nickname more frequently than my actual surname, but for someone else to manage to mistype 'am' as 'man' is fairly impressive.

So, I wonder if it's even possible to make up a name that hasn't been used by someone, somewhere, sometime before, even if only accidentally.

(I suspect 'google' in those lyrics was intended as a semi-nonsense word.)
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posted by [identity profile] tanngrisnir.livejournal.com at 10:27am on 20/09/2006
I don't know the song, but when I saw that comment by [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw I realised that I had heard the expression google-eyed on and off for a couple of decades at least, usually in the mouths of Americans. Perhaps a corruption of goggle?

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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:43am on 20/09/2006
Aha. Perhaps it's one of them Jazz words. It sounds suitably onomatopoeic.
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