As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation

ou don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right. Do a Google search on "ford," for example, and the first batch of results includes the pages for the Ford Motor Company, the Ford Foundation, the Betty Ford Center, Harrison Ford and Gerald R. Ford — all good guesses at what a user would be looking for, particularly considering that Google estimates its index holds more than 16 million pages including the word.