And a lower case “g”, maybe?
I’ve googled “original google logo” and came up blank.
Here are some Google logos from 1999. They don’t look too different from the current ones.
Isn’t the “Do you Yahoo?” a yahoo advertising campaign? I doubt they’d mind, then.
I can see it now:
Next Olympic Sport= Pro-googling!
I was referring to the ad campaign. They use “yahoo” as a verb.
So why not something like “Google me this”. 
**monica wishes;
“I can see it now:
Next Olympic Sport= Pro-googling!”
Why not? Some of the other “sports” are just as unlikely. 
First, monica, I’ve got to learn to vB code.
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Although the example of Xerox was a very good one, the prime example is COKE. Today, if you order a coke you are likely to be asked “Will Pepsi, be okay?”. In the past, this was not the case. IIRC it went to court and although Cocoa Cola won it scared them so much they sent people out to order “Coke” and if they got Pepsi they threatened to take the offender to court. In another example, the term “aspirin” was ruled a generic term by a court. So it isn’t unreasonable for Google to take the matter seriously.
As long as the OP is shot to hell anyway,
When did they trademark “Coke”? After it was in common usage, or before. I seem to remember calling it Coke long before I ever saw it (the name) endorsed by the company.
And thanks, for the info on searching using the Google search engine.
I’m gonna take an aspirin, and wash it down with a coke.
btw ‘maid in manhatten’ had a line where she’d ask her son to ‘google it’ in school, so if the movies start doing this more often wouldn’t it be wiser for the company to turn it around and run an ad campaign like yahoo’s?
and i think the case with coke is different. for a long time as a kid i’d thought pepsi was coke as i’d only ask for coke, never pepsi… :o