Just Verb It? Part IV and Conclusion: Mitigating the Risk of Genericide in Using Brands as Verbs By Duets Guest Blogger on July 30, 2009 Posted in Mixed Bag of Nuts –Dan Kelly, Attorney “In 2006, google was defined in the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb meaning ‘to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.'”