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: jon.stanton at comcast.net (Jon)
Date: Thu Sep 23 17:52:52 2004
References: <000201c4a1b7$ed08f1d0$121afea9@Hausner> <C4FB4DA2E04FB62F735C7BEC@[10.5.162.112]>
 
"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."


And what about poor Barney with the the "goo-goo-googly eyes"?
In reply to: Message from buzz.hausner at verizon.net (Buzz Hausner) ([Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs)