I’ve been a long time fan of Google. I was one of the first at our company to recognize how it was such a special company and in turn very important to us. I talk about Google a lot with the people I work with and with the people in my personal life.

People around me have started to rely on Google as much as I have. And they will quip terms like “I googled it.” None of them will say “I MSNed it.” Or “I Yahooed! it.”

I’ve started to notice that people who I don’t have influence over are now saying things like “I googled it.” The most memorable was in Costa Rica. I was in a small internet caf. Sitting to my right was a man in his 40′s with his teenage daughter to his right. He wanted to find something on the net and looked a little baffled about what to do. His problem was he appeared to be computer illiterate. He asked his daughter a couple of times for assistance. She huffed at him “Dad, just Google it!”

Priceless.