Boingboing.net: “Although an attempt to protect the company’s trademark, the [legal] letters have raised snickers after they were leaked on to the web.
“Bloggers have been making fun of the examples Google’s lawyers deem acceptable. They included: ‘Appropriate: I ran a Google search to check out that guy from the party. Inappropriate: I googled that hottie’.”
AgonyFunkle: “We profusely apologise for misusing your brand name oh Great One. We also apologise for assuming you were a maverick company that didn’t care for such silly things.”
BusinessWeek: “Its recent inclusion as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary confirms what competitors feared: Google means search to an army of Web users.”
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Technopedia: If google becomes a verb, Google is going to extra publicity without spending a single dime ... The only reason that I can think of this decision to fight google as a verb is that the word google would become so diluted that people would forget that Google is actually a company and not a word in the English dictionary.”
Muscular Liberals: “Has someone had an intelligence bypass at Google? Have they never heard of Hoovers?”
Read the Times Online story here.