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- Google is a wildly popular online search engine. It has become the most influential search engine online, and certainly the most utilized. Google is a multifaceted corporation with various branches and applications online, and is constantly growing. As of now, the Google trademark extends to such sub-companies as Google Adwords, Gmail (Google's emailing system), Google Code, and Google Maps and books. The word "google" has transformed into a neologism meaning "to look up online." The American Dialect Society selected it as the "most useful word of 2002." It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006. The first recorded usage of the word was on July 8, 1998, when Google founder Larry Page wrote on an emailing list "Have fun and keep googling!" Google has resisted the widespread usage of the word, fearing the loss of their trademark. The corporation has sent cease-and-desist letters to sites like Word Spy, which tracks neologisms, asking that "you should please only use 'Google' when you're actually referring to Google Inc. and our services." The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has lower-cased the term "google" in deference to the company's wish, rendering the term more generic.
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