Rose Hagan, Google's senior trademark counsel, told Times Online: "Protecting our trademark is important to us, so we want to be sure that when people talk about 'Googling' they mean searching on Google and not on any other search engine."
So the Great Lord Google has spoken: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Google in vain. "
We can giggle, goggle, gurgle; but is it now an indictable offence to 'google'?
Has 'Googling' in the upper case become a capital offence?
What about the The Nashville Teen's hit version of the John D Loudermilk song 'Google Eye'?
Is it still permissible to sing :
"Google eye fry in the sizzle
Sweet smoke lay on the water
Take old google eye's scales 'n tails
Home to me daughter
Oh goodbye google eye
Ate him up a-google eye, a-google eye, a-google eye
Ate him up a-google eye, a-google eye, a-google eye
Good bye google eye" ?
I've just composed this tongue-in-cheek lyric:
"There was a young scribe named MacDougal
Who'd the temerity to use the verb 'google'.
A litigious email;
Now he's locked up in jail.
An apocryphal tale. Sorry, Google."
Honestly, Google, it's made up ... it's not true ... it didn't happen ...