Google Doesn't Want To Be A Verb

There must be too many lawyers roaming around in tech land. Apparently Google's legal team is sending out letters to the media requesting that they not use Google as a verb. Just imagine.

Google Guy: Ok, so let's see, in our take over the world strategy, we want to become a household name. We want everyone to mention our product.

Google Lawyer: But what about verbs?

Google Guy: What about verbs?

Google Lawyer: I don't think we want to be known like Xerox, do we?  I mean gee whiz, everybody anywhere who makes a copy says "Xerox this." What if, heaven forfend, somebody using some other search engine somewhere said, "google this" and it wasn't our product?

Google Guy: Um?

Google Lawyer: There's no way we could monetize that.

Google Guy: Umm?

Google Lawyer: We've got to put a stop to this right now.

Google Guy: Why is it a bad thing? It sort of has become a part of the vernacular. I think we've even gotten it mentioned as a verb in a dictionary or two. What's the harm?

Google Laywer: Leave that to us. We'll discover some.

Via Steve Rubel