Over on the Google Blog, the fine folks at Google get into how we should be using their word in a sentence when it refers to other search engines.
According to the Google gods, if you use Google as a verb and you are referring to any other search engine, it's "Bad. Very, very bad." This is because: "You can only 'Google' on the Google search engine. If you absolutely must use one of our competitors, please feel free to 'search' on Yahoo or any other search engine."
Last I checked Google and I both live in a free country. So if I want to google from Yahoo, I actually can via Yahoo Shortcuts. Or, I can google using Yubnub or on AOL. In addition, technically, using Google's own new CSE program, I can google from anywhere.
I reiterate that this is just silly. If Google doesn't want to be part of the pop culture, just say so. I am sure everyone else in the search space would be delighted to play this role. Google, can't we just say "I googled from Yahoo." Pretty please.
