Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 14, 2006 @12:47AM from the you-wouldn't-like-google-when-it's-angry dept.

rm69990 writes "Google, becoming more and more concerned about the growing use of the word google as a verb, has fired off warning letters to numerous media organizations warning them against using its name as a verb. This follows google (with a lowercase g) being added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in June. According to a Google spokesperson: "We think it's important to make the distinction between using the word Google to describe using Google to search the internet, and using the word Google to describe searching the internet. It has some serious trademark issues.""

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Re:Generic Brand Name Issue by steincastle · 2006-08-14 01:49 · Score: 0, Troll

How can you get 5:Insightfull and speculate on a generic name? Google was trademarked BEFORE it was baked into the language so there can't be any dispute about legitimacy of the trademark. Quite contrary, if that is happening then their trademark is super-golden egg. This is about something else, I think that Google's ever growing lawyer department is just trying to earn their skyhigh wages by doing what lawyers do: sending threatening letters etc.