goins and cummins

An attempt to keep up with the goings and comings of the Cummins family; namely Wanda and Ray.

Monday, August 21, 2006

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 1
0 to the 100th power.

2 Comments:

At 12:06 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

And don't forget our violist, Amanda Gugle who married Ben Creamer last year!

 
At 9:21 AM, Blogger Ray Cummins said...

Did she marry to get rid of that sound-alike maiden name?

 

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