See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html:
Usage: 'Google' as verb referring to searching for information via any
conduit other than Google.
Example: "I googled him on Yahoo and he seems pretty interesting."
Our lawyers say: Bad. Very, very bad. You can only "Google" on the
Google search engine. If you absolutely must use one of our competitors,
please feel free to "search" on Yahoo or any other search engine.
Michael (long-time lurker, first-time poster) Stead
Bolton Libraries
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: 21 August 2007 17:47
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Ceci n'est pas un catalogue
Janet Hill said:
"I think we are well along the path to when "google" as a verb will be
nearly universally used to mean nothing more than looking something up
on the Internet."
"Google" is already in dictionaries (e.g., OED, Merriam-Webster) but
they are careful to define it as using the Google search engine to look
for info.
Bernie Sloan
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