Who had ever thought that Google, the internet search engine company formed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and the hottest stock in U.S. right now had its trademark name "Google" officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on June 15, 2006, and to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006 due to its popular usage. I was wondering why Yahoo! never reach this kind of pinnacle and popularity among netizens.
For instance, consider usage like this: -
Please Google (search) for me the stock price as well as the company information of Google Inc.
or
Please Yahoo! (???) for me the stock price as well as the company information of Google Inc.
Hehe...
Which one sounds nicer?
Google was last traded at Nasdaq at USD525.01 as of 28 June 2007.
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Main Entry: goo·gle
Pronunciation: 'gü-g&l
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): goo·gled; goo·gling /-g(&-) li[ng]/
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Google, trademark for a search engine
: to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
The Road Not Taken
(Poem by Robert Frost from his Mountain Interval collection)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Afterthought: As a trekker myself, I always take the right road. Or perhaps, did I miss something? In life, whichever road you take, it really doesn't matter. Just stay the course. Don't be lost!)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Afterthought: As a trekker myself, I always take the right road. Or perhaps, did I miss something? In life, whichever road you take, it really doesn't matter. Just stay the course. Don't be lost!)
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