>From the Sublime to the Ridiculous Department:

Google Asks Media to Stop Using Its Name as Verb
     Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra "don't be evil", has 
fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them 
against using its name as a verb. 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.
Read more: 
http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2006/08/google-asks-media-to-stop-using-its.html 
(Source: The Independent)

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