Google objects to being a generic word
It seems that Google doesn’t feel all that honored by becoming a dictionary entry. I would have thought that a company would consider this some sort of corporate coup. But companies are often a little paranoid about trademarks. Google had its lawyers contact the Washington Post complaining about a Post story. The Seattle Times reports
Google, evidently, took offense to a passage in The Post article: “Google, the word, now takes its place alongside the handful of proper nouns that have moved beyond a particular product to become descriptors of an entire sector  generic trademarks.”
The people at Google should just relax and enjoy being in the dictionary. Fighting popular word usage is a losing battle. Just ask Xerox or the Hormel Company, which makes the canned meat product Spam.
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