OT: google as a verb Was: RE: [AccessD] Crosstab in Oracle

Mitsules, Mark mitsules_ms at nns.com
Thu May 29 08:34:33 CDT 2003


...yep.



-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:27 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: OT: google as a verb Was: RE: [AccessD] Crosstab in Oracle


I think the lawyers are hard at work trying to convince the world that they
need more lawyers.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:22 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: OT: google as a verb Was: RE: [AccessD] Crosstab in Oracle


Hi Mark

>>However, if you google on Oracle SQL crosstab you'll find some hints.

> Just an observation to something I read a few months back...no 
> judgment on these statements one way or the other.

> Apparently, Google's lawyers are hard at work trying to maintain 
> "Google"
as
> a trademark.  I think the article was discussing the possibility that 
> if Google were to become too successful, people would start using 
> Google as a verb.  At that point, Google could lose their trademark 
> much like aspirin did years ago.

Maybe - or maybe not: Xerox did not.

/gustav

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