You can Ogle, but you can't Google

[Brett_Tabke]

Nice article from Canada.com on Google as a verb [canada.com].

Original Thread last january:
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And February:
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[nvision]

Cute. So, should we abstain from saying that we're "webmasterworlding"? ;)

[Mohamed_E]

For those who have not yet read it, here is the wordspy.com entry for Google: [wordspy.com...]

[Liane]

What about "Barney Google", the comic strip and TV character who (as the strips' song by Billy Rose went) had "goo-goo-googley eyes"?

There is no question which came first. Billy DeBeck (artist) invented Barney Google in 1919 and after his death in 1942, his assistant, Fred Lasswell, took over the character and continued to draw the strip until his own death in 2001.

They had no problem using "googley" as an adjective and Google as his character's last name. I think their estate(s) might have some proprietary rights of the use of the word "Google" and its derivatives. :)

[edit reason] I had DeBeck's first name wrong. Thanks for that link Deft_Spyder!

[edited by: Liane at 6:33 pm (utc) on April 3, 2003]

[deft_spyder]

she speaks the googley truth!

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I had to verify it to make sure this wasnt someone who somehow is still in the apr 1st time zone.

Theres even a pic of the googley eyes being stared down by an angry horse.

[Liane]

The horse is named Spark Plug! He was a big part of the comic strip as was Snuffy Smith ... Barney's cousin.

My mom used to sing that song to us all the time!
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