Just try and stop our googling on Yahoo. . .

Yesterday, the official Google Blog posted a lecture on the correct use of the word Google. They agree that you “verb” the noun but only when you are actually searching the web via Google.
The funniest part is that someone is said to be Googling in a NY Times story back in 1996 (Google launched in 1998), which of course was impossible–I probably would have used Alta Vista back then.

“Jim sent a message introducing himself and asking, ‘Do you want to make a movie?’” Mr. Fry recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Buda, Tex. ‘So we Googled him, he passed the test, and T called him. That was in March 1996; we spent the summer coming up with the story, and we pitched it that fall.’”

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