walkman - 2:22 pm on Aug 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra "don't be evil", has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb. 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.

To Google Or Not To Google? It's A Legal Question [news.independent.co.uk]

biased article. I don't see this as Google being humorless or uptight; they're just doing what it's needed to protect their trademark.

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