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I can see it now, grade school teachers quizing students with the word google. The boy googled the origin of the dog.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary now includes the word “google,” which it defines as a verb (prediction: within a decade, it will also be an expletive, as in “go google yourself!”). Sensitive to the search engine’s concerns (and to its legal team), the dictionary does note that the word is trademarked. Dictionaries, news outlets, and websites that do not note this risk receiving a strongly-worded letter asking them to either remove the offending use of the term or note that it is trademarked.

Apparently, the prestige of being included into the English langauge has its downsides including the possibilty of loosing the trademark. Nonetheless, I sure wish I had a word in the dictionary.

On a lighter note, unibrow was added to the dictionary as well.