Verb. transitive.
To run a background check on someone using a search engine.
While a Web search is limited only to discovering a person’s Web footprint, a search of a person’s name might be useful in preliminary research in biz dev. Or, if you can believe Deborah Schoeneman of the New York Observer, prospective dates, when she wrote the article, “Don’t Be Shy, Ladies—Google Him!”
“With Googling, it’s easy to find out if a new crush has ever made news, has ever been published or, on the flip side, has ever been indicted for securities fraud-or worse, posted love letters on a Backstreet Boys fan site.”
New York Observer, January 1, 2001.
Or v=onepage&q=red%20boost&f=false this example, from a skit on Harry Shearer’s Le Show:
Vice President Cheney: “Come on, Condi, you and I both know there’s no such thing as University of Denver.”
Condoleezza Rice: “There is too. Google me.”
Cf. SharQ’s note re: the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition.