I remember the first time I had heard of Google -- it was ALREADY used as a verb! I was interning at Xerox PARC (adjacent to Stanford campus) in summer 2000.

I remember the first time I had heard of Google -- it was ALREADY used as a verb! I was interning at Xerox PARC (adjacent to Stanford campus) in summer 2000. As far as I remember, I used Alta Vista at the time. Somebody asked a question, and one of the researchers/intern mentors said to "Google it"! I think there were some puzzled looks, but we tried it, and I started using Google and never went back. When I returned to college in the fall, I remember my former housemate saying how good Google was too. She had started using it too. Once people started using it, they never stopped!