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: leicagalpal at earthlink.net (Kit McChesney)
Date: Thu Sep 23 16:59:10 2004

Yea, imagine what that slippage into public domain-dom would do for the
stock price! :(

Kit 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Reid
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:53 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs


> 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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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs)
In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs)