(CBS) Has there ever been a brand name like Google? Non-existent six years ago, it’s now a part of the global language, as in, “I Googled this,� or “I Googled that,� or “I Googled you.� To Google, a verb, is to get an instant answer by using the company's super-computer to look up anything on the Internet.

What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since the company went public last August...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in664063.shtml

Googling sounds much better than "Alta-Vista-ing" anyways.