kottke.org reports that "Paul McFedries, who runs the excellent Word Spy, has received a letter from one of Google's lawyers concerning his citation of the word google". McFedries has a web site called WordSpy, that is "devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance." He recently added the verb "google" to the site and it seems Google isn't happy with his definition.

Something about Google's attitude just rubs me the wrong way. Plus, I'm not sure how much ground they have to stand on in this case.