A very uptight employee at Google has posted a rant on the Google Blog on the use of the word "Google" as a verb by us common folks. While I can appreciate his need to clarify terminology (I have some of the same feelings about "Messianic Judaism" and related terms), bringing up what "Our lawyers say" is, in my opinion, a bit too far. I don't think many people will be dissuaded from using the verb form of "Google" by the fact that Google's lawyers don't like it. Is using the verb form illegal on a blog? I don't know... Maybe I'll have to Google that.

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