Just Google it. Can you Google the score? Have you Googled the restaurant’s reviews? These are all common phrases in today’s internet-reliant society, and it’s entirely due to the creation of Google ...

How Google Became a Verb - 12/31/2009 But the use of Google as a transitive verb also gives us a glimpse into how we regard the gathering of the content we Google. Transitive verbs tend to reflect a ...

Trademark lawyers everywhere are shaking their heads in dismay, as the Oxford English Dictionary has now added Google’s company name to the dictionary as a verb. Although this would seem to be a good ...

Wants everybody to stop 'googling'... Internet search giant Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its brand name as a generic verb, saying phrases such as 'to google' somebody or ...

MUCH is made of the fact that google is a verb—this is often given as a sign that the search-engine giant has well and truly made it. Page 7 of "The Google Story" by David Vise and Mark Malseed tells ...

Having the public use your company name as a verb is, in one way, a marketer’s Shangri-la. Many companies would kill for the name recognition and popularity of “xerox,” “google,” and “hoover.” For the ...

Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently. In fact, many regularly used tech words are just now getting the official stamp of ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Companies don’t want their brands to become verbs. When a product becomes so ubiquitous that its name becomes the generic term for ...

Quite quickly, the term to "google" something entered into common vernacular. The term is so extensively used that the Oxford English Dictionary added Google as a verb to its online edition. Now, ...