{"id":2402,"date":"2003-02-26T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2003-02-26T20:46:42","modified_gmt":"2003-02-26T20:46:42","slug":"google_getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Google Getting Too Big?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/\">kottke.org<\/a> reports that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/03\/02\/030226to_google_or.html\">Paul McFedries, who runs the excellent Word Spy, has received a letter from one of Google&#8217;s lawyers concerning his citation of the word google<\/a>&#8220;.  McFedries has a web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/\">WordSpy<\/a>, that is &#8220;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.&#8221;  He recently added the verb &#8220;google&#8221; to the site and it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> isn&#8217;t happy with his definition.<\/p>\n<p>Something about Google&#8217;s attitude just rubs me the wrong way.  Plus, I&#8217;m not sure how much ground they have to stand on in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kottke.org reports that &#8220;Paul McFedries, who runs the excellent Word Spy, has received a letter from one of Google&#8217;s lawyers concerning his citation of the word google&#8220;. McFedries has a web site called WordSpy, that is &#8220;devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}