google vs root about

google

verb
  • To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine. 

  • To be locatable in a search of the Internet. 

  • Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly. 

  • Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly. 

  • To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine. 

  • To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”). 

noun
  • An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine. 

root about

verb
  • To search for something in a similar manner. 

  • To rummage; to look for something in a somewhat aimless fashion. 

  • To forage by poking the snout here and there. 

How often have the words google and root about occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )