I’m All Agog (TM)

Hey, has anyone seen the latest BARNEY GOOGLE (TM) cartoon? You can see the daily comic HERE.

Never mind. I’m all Agog (TM) over Google (TM) and their googling this morning over Trade Mark (TM) violations – (meaning they want you to PAY for the use of their NAME whenever you use it?)

And the Uproar (TM) is not over the huge number called a GOOGLE-PLEX (TM) either.

Search engine giant Google (TM) has sent a serious series of legal LETTERS to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb. (!!!)

It must be MONDAY (TM). THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE decided that “google” has been used enough by the human race to warrant a spot in their best sellers (dictionaries, for those of you who remember paper books). If in doubt, you should Dictionary (TM) the term.

Not two months ago, Google (TM) won a place in the Oxford English Dictionary (TM), while “to google”, with a lower case “g”, was included last month in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (TM), the leading reference book.

Even Google’s (TM) search engine will give you the word “google” if you google it, and give you an extensive (hundreds of millions of hits) list of dictionaries and dictionary history of how the word came to be placed in the English language.

So why is Google (TM) so worried about Trademark (TM) violation?

Google’s (TM) highly overpaid lawyer said, “We think it’s important to make the distinction between using the word Google (TM) to describe using Google (TM) to search the internet, and using the word Google (TM) to describe searching the internet. It has some serious trademark issues.” (source: Idiot’s Daily Nooz)

Of course, the Internet (TM) being what it is, the letters have been leaked all over the web, raising Snickers (TM) in readers.

Bloggers (who, us?) have been making fun of the examples Google’s (TM) lawyers deem acceptable. It is safe to say, most of us are going to continue to ignore these over-priced, overbearing destroyers of corporate image, and continue to “google” things when we want to do an internet search. We are NOT going to “Google (TM)” them, right?

After all, the word “google” is in the Dictionary (TM), right?

So what do all these publishing and media industries think?

They are worried about Google’s (TM) encroachment on their intellectual property via its Google News (TM) pages AND its plan to put every book ever published on to the web.

That’s what they think.

Regards,
Roger Born (TM)
“Sorry, No Refunds”

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