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Googling Trouble 八月 15, 2006

During my early days of World Wide Web exploration, I’d always look towards the likes of Altavista and Yahoo! for my online searching needs, not until 1998 that we’d seen the embarkment of Google in the World Wide Web.

If you’d asked me to tell you one site that I visit multiple times on daily basis for the past 5 years or so, it’d goona be http://www.Google.com. By no mean Google will ever doubted to remain as the most popular and widely used search engine on the WWW today and tomorrow, to the extend of the word google has turned into some form of metaphor it which it now defines web search. However, you might wanted to think twice the next time you try use the word g-o-o-g-l-e.

Reported on UK Newspaper The Independent, Google Inc. has issued a series of legal letters to media organizations, warning them against using the word “google” as a verb. The U.S. public corporation believed the use of “google” as a verb involved legal complication regarding the company’s trademark violation.

In June, Google won a place in the Oxford English Dictionary, while “to google”, with a lower case “g”, was included last month in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, America’s leading reference book.

The online service WordSpy, meanwhile, defines “google” as: “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.” This is also what pops up first if you type “googling” into Google.

So, to google, or not to google? It doesn’t really matter much to me, Google will still be my very first resource when it came to web searching. Lets google!