Monday, July 10, 2006

Google now a verb

Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently. On Thursday, Merriam-Webster announced its latest update, and the new science and technology words added to the venerable dictionary include agritourism, biodiesel, mouse potato, ringtone and spyware. And <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6091289.html?tag=zdnn.alert">google is defined as a transitive verb</A> meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web." While the entry retains capitalization in explaining the word's etymology--"Google, trademark for a search engine"--the verb google is lowercase.

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