Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Fri May 30 06:14:07 CDT 2003
I guess they'll be suing William Gibson for his use of the verb "to google" in his latest book Pattern Recognition, which, not to get too OT about it, is a great read. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: 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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com