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sbisson at 03:32pm on 14/08/2006 under dictionary, google, journalism, nastygram, verb, writing
sbisson at 03:32pm on 14/08/2006 under dictionary, google, journalism, nastygram, verb, writing...so it's probably far too late for Google to nastygram newspapers using the word "google"...
Is this from the "shutting-the-stable-door-after-the-horse-has-bolted-and-is-now-in-a-different-country" department?
In June, Google won a place in the Oxford English Dictionary, while "to google", with a lower case "g", was included last month in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, America's leading reference book.So, will we be googling for Google's google smack downs?
The online service WordSpy, meanwhile, defines "google" as: "To search for information on the Web, particularly by using the Google search engine; to search the Web for information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend." This is also what pops up first if you type "googling" into Google.
Is this from the "shutting-the-stable-door-after-the-horse-has-bolted-and-is-now-in-a-different-country" department?
amused
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