Google has put some pressure on Sweden's Language Council after it tried to add "ungoogleable" to its list of words, according to a report out of the country.
Swedish news outlet Sverigesradio is reporting today that Google's lawyers contacted the Language Council after it announced that it would make "ungoogleable" (or, in Swedish, "ogooglebar") an official word. After "a long e-mail exchange" with the lawyers, the Council decided to drop its bid to make it a word, saying that it took "too much time and resources away from other work."
"Ungoogleable" was going to be defined as "that cannot be found on the Web using a search engine." Google reportedly believed that using its name in the word was unfair and ostensibly wanted another term to define the problem.
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