'Google' has found its way into a US dictionary so quickly. According to an AFP report, the 2006 fall edition of Merriam-Webster will carry the verb, which means to search the Internet -- made popular with the launch of the famous search engine.
Of course, this isn't the first trademark that has also been transformed into a verb. There's Xerox and xerox (to photocopy). Know of any other?
Other new words in the dictionary: spyware, supersize, ringtone. Say hello too to 'mouse potato', which means someone glued to the computer screen the same way that a couch potato is someone glued to the telly.
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