Re: "to google" reprise. . .

Im not a laywer but I can only second this: Google's legal and
Marketing department will have to learn to live with Google's branding
success:

Google's brand has become synonymous with their product category. But
they are many precedents: Xerox, Polaroid, Kleenex, Band-Aid, Q-Tips,
Levi's, Tetra Pak........

None of the above companies engages in ceise-and-decist actions when
their brandname is used in broader context; they rather sit back and
enjoy the ultimate branding success that eludes their competitors...

So Google, stop acting like Microsoft (remember Mikerowesoft.com?
http://www.theregister.com/2004/01/19/microsoft_lawyers_threaten_mike_rowe/)

-frank

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:49:42 -0700, dave johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> well if the bbc says it, it must be true ;)
> 
> from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3927963.stm :
> 
> "The phrase "to google" has entered popular parlance as a verb to describe an internet search."
> 
> -=dave
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