SKIRMISHER

There are at least two things that greeted us this morning: some observations that Google Video seems preparing to accept pornographic (”mature”) content, and the somehow annoying legal shit Google is slapping on people who’d be “foolish” enough to use the term “google” as a verb.

Personally, I have no problem with Google Video beginning to accept videos containing certain degrees of nudity. I don’t really buy the idea, anyway, that Google’s going to go all the way regarding hardcore porn; maybe just something softcore, some breast exposures, naked girls on the beach, flashes of buttcracks—but not the Rocco kind of hardcore.

If Google does sink its sunlight-deprived fingers in the warm, fleshy gash of hardcore porn, my strict Catholic upbringing leads me to think that Google would at least make another video spin-off and would be smart enough not to “soil” Google Video with things that have to do with excitement of the Tera Patrick kind—not that there’s anything wrong with it.

But what got me stiff and hard are the legal letters Google has been sending media organizations regarding the use of the term “Google” in daily life. You can use “Google,” the company’s hired legal guns say, only when you refer to the search engine. You might be committing trademark infringements if you’d use the goddamn word as a verb, such as in the line: “can you please google the motherfucking meaning of ‘trademark violation’?”

Okay. Maybe some changes are in order to go along with the transformation Google wants, like chucking all those M&M colors on its search engine’s home page, and replacing them with humorless, schoolmarmy, bold-faced black.

GOOGLE PORN? [TechCrunch]

TO GOOGLE OR NOT TO GOOGLE? IT’S A LEGAL QUESTION [Independent]

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