Re: RE: Use of "googling" on zoe.nu

Zoe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.zoe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Mrs Hagan,

On Jun 14, 2004, at 19:26, [email protected] wrote:

> The email you received was not spam.  We use Cyveillance's service to 
> send
> emails on our behalf.

Very unprofessional. You should consider changing your sub-contractor.

> The attachment is a Word document regarding the proper use of "Google".

Very unprofessional. You should consider changing your practice.

> We look forward to your prompt response and compliance with our 
> request that
> you cease us eof the phrase "Googling your email."

"Googling your email" is the title of an article dated October 7 2002 
published in O'Reilly Network by Mr John Udell:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/07/udell.html
-- Jon Udell, "Googling Your Email", O'Reilly Network, 10/07/2002

Feel free to contact O’Reilly Media, Inc if you don't like the title of 
this article.

As an aside, "googling" seems to be of quite common use.

A popular search engine returns around 237,000 results for "googling":

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=googling

The first one of them being:

google  (GOO.gul)  v. To search for information on the Web, 
particularly by using the Google search engine; to search the Web for 
information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend.
  —Googling pp.

http://www.wordspy.com/words/google.asp

Regards,

Z.




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