SC has quoted from TheStreet.com's Cody Willard before, on the various possible blends of "chicken" and "economy". Yesterday, Mr. Willard treated his readers to some brief speculations on verbs you can make out of "google":
The market will be Googleized tomorrow as the company gives the Street its earnings report for the second time in its short history. (That's Googleized, meaning the markets will be affected by Google's (GOOG:Nasdaq) earnings report, as opposed to "Googled," which would mean that someone would be researching the market on Google. Come to think of it, though, the market will be Googled tomorrow as it is every day, too!)
It seems to SC that not all company names are susceptible to this sort of derivation, albeit for extralinguistic reasons. One can imagine saying "The market will be IBM-ized", intending the same meaning as Mr. Willard's above, but even when IBM has good news, it doesn't seem to stop the markets from taking a dive. If Mr. Willard is right, Google's good news will be good news for everyone.
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