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and here's what Jesse has to say generally about "web words":
We wouldn't put [one] in using only Web citations, but anything that has a reasonable currency on the Web will also be found in more traditional print sources, including _to google._ In certain circumstances we can cite certain sources from the Web, if it's necessary to establish usage, but we prefer not to.
in other words, things haven't changed significantly from the "can it be found widely in print" test.
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web words
So then google would have to take on, and then be used relatively frequently with, a more generic meaning for search before they'll consider listing it, as in "google the dictionary for the meaning" or "they were googling the woods for the legendary beast"?
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>So then google would have to take on, and then be used relatively frequently with, a more generic meaning for search before they'll consider listing it...
not at all. if it becomes a standard in written use, but only suggests a specific use (as a specific tool), then it lies in that grey area that depends probably on the persistence of the tool; if OTOH it becomes widely accepted in referring to *any web search, there is little doubt of dictionary inclusion.
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widely accepted in referring to *any web search
As in:
I googled "wlonc" with Lycos and I got 155 hits; when I googled it with Google I got 187.
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when I googled it with Google I got 187I got 270. 
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192... I guess there's another sense of google we need to capture.
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"Googling google, With my goo-goo-googley eyes!"  Well, I just googled google and got 12,400,000 hits!...sooooo?
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here's another recent addition to OED..
dotcom, n. NEW EDITION:
draft entry June 2001
Computing.
1. An Internet address for a commercial site expressed in terms of the formulaic suffix .com; a web site with such an address.
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