Google (v.), Bing (v.)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

My latest Word Routes column, a followup to our Word of the Decade
vote, is on the verbification of Google and Bing:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2147/

I link to a July 8, 1998 post by Larry Page on the Google-Friends
list, which ends with "Have fun and keep googling!"

http://web.archive.org/web/19991009052012/www.egroups.com/group/google-friends/3.html

This antedates the first cite in the current OED draft entry (a Usenet
post from Oct. 1999). Wikipedia's got it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_%28verb%29

--Ben Zimmer

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