[Wikipedia-l] Gibson props

Fri May 2 13:09:50 UTC 2003

Cyberpunk impresario William Gibson gives props to Wiktionary:

So is Google officially a verb now?
When I wrote Pattern Recognition, it occurred to me that I could use it as a
verb and it also occurred to me that someone might already have done so. I
thought it didn't matter too much. If I'm first that's great, but if I'm
not, then it's just good reportage in a way. Sites like Wiktionary track new
usages and neologisms. The page on Google as a verb went back almost two
years! 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,946503,00.html