No. 4417749

[CmdrSlack]

Actually they've more specifically asked people not to use google as a verb meaning 'to search on the internet'. It is entirely acceptable to use it as a verb if you are referring to using Google to search for something.

I hate when people use the term google to mean searching the internet other than buy using Google. Its just stupid.

Yeah, but companies spend money asking people to not do just that with their product names.  At least four times a year, I see ads from Xerox in the ABA Journal asking us to not refer to the act of making photocopies as "Xeroxing."

[Telemediocrity]

Luckily, given the big money at stake (Xerox and Google-sized companies), even the most lukewarm effort to defend the trademark should be enough in court to save them any real hassles down the road.

[Lt.Dan]

Actually they've more specifically asked people not to use google as a verb meaning 'to search on the internet'. It is entirely acceptable to use it as a verb if you are referring to using Google to search for something.

I hate when people use the term google to mean searching the internet other than buy using Google. Its just stupid.

Me, I hate people who use 'buy' rather than 'by' 

[Righ]

What I like is the way that the aolstalker.com site is stalking the stalkers by displaying the first three octets of their IP addresses for all to see.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

[Morfiend]

I guess I should go use dictionary.com to google the correct spelling then.

[HaemishM]

Actually they've more specifically asked people not to use google as a verb meaning 'to search on the internet'. It is entirely acceptable to use it as a verb if you are referring to using Google to search for something.

I hate when people use the term google to mean searching the internet other than buy using Google. Its just stupid.

You mean like people calling all sodas "Coke" or all bathroom tissues "Kleenex?"

Marketers stay up late at night trying to think of ways to get that much brand awareness.

[WayAbvPar]

Actually they've more specifically asked people not to use google as a verb meaning 'to search on the internet'. It is entirely acceptable to use it as a verb if you are referring to using Google to search for something.

I hate when people use the term google to mean searching the internet other than buy using Google. Its just stupid.

You mean like people calling all sodas "Coke" or all bathroom tissues "Kleenex?"

Marketers stay up late at night trying to think of ways to get that much brand awareness.

Kleenex I will give you, but calling all sodas Coke isn't so much brand awareness as it is regional stupidity. I wish I could explain exactly how much that annoys me.