Thou Shalt Not "Google"
...Apparently the Google search engine is legally protesting the use of its name as a verb as in "I googled my friend's name." I remember when Xerox did the same thing, because everyone was using "xerox" for "photocopying." I would have thought that businesses would be honored to have their copyrighted names used in a common way. It gives them more exposure to the public, but I also see that it infringes in some ways on their capitalizing on their copyrights.
...However, there may be an unusual countersuit over Google copyrighting a term that is very similar to an accepted mathematical term, "googol" which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, or 10 to the 100th power.
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And don't forget our violist, Amanda Gugle who married Ben Creamer last year!
Did she marry to get rid of that sound-alike maiden name?
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