Thread: Is "google" now a verb?

Correct, but then you knew that 'cos you googled it


Of course it's a verb and unlike many 'real' or 'traditional language' verbs it's one that almost every English speaker on the planet understands ..... unlike procrastinate or blather for example

Originally Posted by Lor Ling

Wasn't that a googol?

googol - Google Search

Yes it was - I just googled it!

You win one debate point and a greenie.


Here's a page on the Web that tells about the origin of the words
googol and googolplex:

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.html

This says:

"googol

a unit of quantity equal to 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). The
googol was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-
1955) in 1938. According to the story, Kasner asked his nephew Milton
Sirotta, who was then 8 years old, what name he would give to a really
large number, and "googol" was Milton's response. Kasner also defined
the googolplex, equal to 10^googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of
zeroes. These inventions caught the public's fancy and are often
mentioned in discussions of very large numbers."

A slightly different version is in

Googolplex
The Googolplex Page

I guess the term was adapted from this word. Thanx for the fax.

Originally Posted by defender

Correct, but then you knew that 'cos you googled it

You win one debate point and a greenie too, defender.

the modern venacular of the word google is that it is a verb, and a noun

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

Would you mind googling that up for me?

google has always been a verb, at least since 1907.

Originally Posted by DunceCap

the modern venacular of the word google is that it is a verb, and a noun

Yes indeed

Originally Posted by DunceCap

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

I luv googling.

Originally Posted by Cyrille

Sorry?

Examples please.



Would like some links to that too, please.

(A polite way of saying 'what a pile of bull crap' )

caught it in the news a long time ago but why don't you try googling : "google prevent verb" and see for yourself how much bull crap it is
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o what the hell, here is a copy paste for yer lazy arse

Google Fighting Verb Usage
Google Fighting Verb Usage

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006;
-- Andy Beal |
SEW reports on Google’s attorney’s attempts to stop media using “google” as a verb.
According to the (hand addressed) letter sent to the Washington Post Google has come up with some examples or suggestions to linguistically aid us in the future. What is appropriate is “He ego-surfs on the Google search engine to see if he’s listed in the results.”, and inappropriate language is “He googles himself.”
Well they need to get on the phone to T-Mobile, as I spotted this at DFW airport…

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another one

Google trademark lawyers protest Google being used as a verb Make You Go Hmm

Google trademark lawyers protest Google being used as a verb

search engines — by TDavid @ 9:59 am PST New! (Hmm, no ratings yet)



I’m not a trademark lawyer and don’t pretend to understand the intracies of trademark law. I also own Google stock. Neither of these truths should prevent me from exercising common sense which the following story seems to be lacking — on the Google side, via Washington Post:

Google, evidently, took offense to this passage in last month’s article: “Google, the word, now takes its place alongside the handful of proper nouns that have moved beyond a particular product to become descriptors of an entire sector — generic trademarks.” This characterization of Google, the letter warned, is “genericide” and should be avoided. Such letters are cranked out every day by companies keen on protecting their trademarks.

I do understand that from a legal perspective a brand must be protected or the trademark can be invalidated, but wouldn’t your name being treated as a verb strengthen the brand? Maybe I’m missing this one completely and need some lawyer readers to school me on why this dilutes the brand for people and publications to use Google as a verb?
They aren’t going to use Google as a verb to discuss something that isn’t related to Google (ok, maybe some writers will), so it all ties back into the brand. Normally, I would google search Google for the answer.
Somebody get Professor Strunk. Omit needless words!

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anywho, to who goes the green on this one?

Originally Posted by DunceCap

can some one show a gerund example my mind won't let me go there right now.

Googling has been helping ignoramuses look well-informed for over a decade now.

Originally Posted by Cyrille

Examples please

Originally Posted by King Lear

He childed as I fathered

nouns to verbs

Originally Posted by Trolius & Cressida

Kingdomed Achilles in commotion rages

noun to adjective

Originally Posted by Othello

To lip a wanton in a secure couch/And to suppose her chaste!

noun to verb and adjective to noun

- though for the last one I'm pretty sure that wanton started off a noun and became and adjective, so maybe Shakespeare was using it as would have been normal in his day.

Originally Posted by kikiat

but wouldn’t your name being treated as a verb strengthen the brand?

I'd have thunk so (and I can say that in all confidence, without even having to google it first!)