http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html At first I thought - how could they be so stupid, but I guess as long as they make a show of being upset they can keep their trademark and keep the great marketing side of things.
Does Goo own Blogspot? If not, why use a third party blog? ^^^ They are lucky to have millions of people saying 'Google It', I wonder if it will still be that way in ten years?
I was wondering when something like this was coming after I'd read about how Webster was including google in the dictionary as a verb this year. It makes sense that they would lay the groundwork now to protect their trademark. Maybe if Bayer had been a little more proactive in the early 1900's, they might still have the trademark in the U.S. for Asprin ... or Herion for that matter.. Learn something new every day! ** From 1898 through to 1910 it was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. Bayer marketed heroin as a "cure" for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine in the liver. All opiates are converted by the human liver into the identical molecule with varying degrees of concentration in the blood stream. The company felt somewhat embarrassed by this new finding and it became a historical blunder for Bayer [1]. As with aspirin, Bayer lost some of its trademark rights to heroin following World War I. http://www.answers.com/topic/heroin ***