Googling off
passing time Googling different people or things or experimenting with new Google features when you really should be doing something more productive, namely working; derived from "goofing off"
Ex. 1: "I've got this huge project at work that I need to finish by tomorrow, yet I still spent the entire morning Googling off."
Ex. 2: "Karl should have been working on his TPS reports, but instead spent the day Googling off by playing with Google Maps to find a Thai restaurant in Bellefonte, Pa."
Ex. 2: "Karl should have been working on his TPS reports, but instead spent the day Googling off by playing with Google Maps to find a Thai restaurant in Bellefonte, Pa."
Google Off
Goofing off on Google.com. Searching random things, reading blogs, and all around wasting time on Google searches instead of doing another possibly more important activity.
Well, if we don't have any work to do, I guess we get to Google Off today.
What did you do all day, Google Off?
Are you Googling Off or working?
What did you do all day, Google Off?
Are you Googling Off or working?
Google Off
A contest in which participants race to see who can find the answer first by searching Google.
Person 1: What does superfluous mean?
Person 2: I don't know, let's have a Google Off!
Person 2: I don't know, let's have a Google Off!
Google-Off
A spontaneous competition usually held in an open-office environment where someone happens to pose a random, trivia-like question and everyone who heard it tries to be the first to answer it using Google.
"What is the capital of Zaire?"
"I don't know but it sounds like a Google-Off question to me!"
"I don't know but it sounds like a Google-Off question to me!"