Google is a company specialized in Internet related services and products, and their search engine is used world-wide. When people want to search for information on the Internet, they 'google' it.
Yes, Google is also a victim of genericide, and the word 'to google' is used as a transitive verb meaning 'to search for information about something or someone on the Internet using the Google search engine.' A lot of people use the verb 'to google' to refer to 'looking up on the Internet', so they could be using bing or YAHOO, and it does not necessarily mean to use 'Google'.
The verb 'to google' entered Merriam Webster dictionary and Oxford dictionary in 2006.
What is amazing about Google is that the search engine has diffused globally and the generification of the word 'to google' has also become world-wide (How do you say google in other languages).
Here are some 'google's in other languages.
German : googlen
French : googler
Italian : googlare
Spanish : googlar
Dutch : googlen
Portuguese : googlar
Turkish : googlemek
Russian : googleet
Japanese : ググる guguru
Google genericide is pandemic, it is thoroughly world-wide... It is unstoppable.
Also, what is notable about all these verbs is that the verbs inflect in regular pattern, non of them are irregular verbs.
Check the regular verb endings in the above given languages.
German : -en
French : -er
Italian : -are
Spanish : -ar
Dutch : -en
Portuguese : -ar
Turkish : -mek
Russian : -ti
They are regular verbs because they are language generated by human beings. The reason? to be continued in the later articles.
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