Aka the most 2002 thing that ever happened. H/T UsVsTh3m .
So UsVsTh3m has noticed that 12 years ago today, this happened.
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This being the time in "Help" – Season 7, Episode 4 – when "Google" was first used as a verb.
In this episode the Scooby gang are investigating a girl named Cassie Newton, who's told them that she's going to die. They find sad poetry on her website – Buffy thinks it's indicative of some kind of precognitive talent, but the others aren't so sure. And then – actually you need to go on Netflix or wherever: it's a great episode.
ANYWAY: as the Atlantic explains, this fact was first reported by Charles Arthur in his book Digital Wars.
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According to Arthur, just a few months later, all 60 members of a committee selected by the American Dialect Society voted to google 2002's most useful new word. Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary would soon note the coinage. By 2006, Google's lawyers—fearful of seeing the company's name brand watered down to the trademark mushiness of kleenex—wrote a post for the company blog outlining when and when not to google should be used.
And as UsVsTh3m points out, "Google as a company was 4 years old in 2002, and was already the largest search engine in the world. So in many ways it's quite surprising that this happened so late."
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