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Don’t google, run a Google search.

Posted on 08/26/2006 by Keith Henning

Via Times Online: Google is sending out letters trying to suppress the use of the word Google as a verb. This is no different than Xerox or Hoover or any number of companies that have come before. The reason Yahoo! never had this problem is that the word does not lend itself well as a verb form. Maintaining trademark requires active enforcement.

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