Google is now a verb
The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added the verb “to google” to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary which is being published later this year. Which means Google joins the list of brand names that have become nouns or verbs replacing traditional words like “hoover” (vacuum-clean), “kleenex” (tissue) – or of course in Germany “Tempo“, “sellotape” (sticky tape, in Germany usually called “Tesafilm“).