Strikes me they'd be on a loser if they tried to stop people using the word.

So far I haven't found another search engien which is better than Google, but when I do, I'll use that for googling, and probably still call it by thta word. The same way I use a Dyson when I want to hoover the floor, and the biro I use to write things isn't.

And I don't have a water closet built by Thomas Crapper either, but...