Though you may have been “googling” people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently. On Thursday, Merriam-Webster announced its latest update, and the new science and technology words added to the venerable dictionary include agritourism, biodiesel, mouse potato, ringtone and spyware. And google is defined as a transitive verb meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web.” While the entry retains capitalization in explaining the word’s etymology–“Google, trademark for a search engine”–the verb google is lowercase.