Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo

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valen200 said:

WiiStation360 said:
Microsoft certainly feels like they need to dominate every single industry. If you can't beat them, buy them. I guess they need to do something with all that money they are sitting on.

Does anyone still use Yahoo as their primary search engine?

 I think the fact that "google" is a verb in common usage (haven't checked Websters to see if it is officaly) indicates how well things are going for yahoo.

 

 I just checked in Oxford (non-american here, so I use a real dictionary :P) and they have it listed. Interesting to note that google was already a word from a long time back, and the current usage of Google is supposed to be spelt with a capital (which makes sense since it is derived from the proper noun). Sorry, no link because Oxford requires a subscription to their online dictionary.

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google, v.

  intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence googler, a googly bowler.

1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having ‘googled’ to no purpose from the ‘nursery’ end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also ‘googled’. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it.

 

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google, v.2

 

    1. intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.

 

1999 Re: Hi Guys! in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct., Has anyone Googled? www.google.com Ver ver [sic] clean and fast. 2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 Sept. (Seven Days section) 7/3 You can google all you want and there's nothing there on them. 2004 U.S. News & World Report 14 June 49/2 The couple found themselves Googling for a new place to live.

    2. trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.

2000 Re: $Emergency_Number in NYC in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Jan., I've googled some keywords, and it came up with some other .edu text. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. III. 12/3, I met this woman last night at a party and I came right home and googled her. 2005 ‘BELLE DE JOUR’ Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 115 Obsessing over the details, including Googling his name every few hours? Too right I did.