Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu Sep 23 15:52:53 2004
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> Brian:  If you don't mind talking about Them, do you know when "Google"
> started being used as a verb?

Google spends a lot of money trying to prevent "google" from being used as a 
verb. Their attorneys believe that the NPR piece mentioned was the first, 
but there were several at that time, including a reference in Sex and the 
City, the first on mainstream television.

Every time any business uses the name "Google" incorrectly, they get a 
letter from one of Google's attorneys asking them to stop doing this. 
Trademark law is fairly specific about how Google must behave in order to 
keep its trademark from slipping into the public domain.

Imagine if Microsoft could offer "googling by Microsoft: it's much better 
than the other brands"
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