TechCrunch.com is reporting that Yahoo! will be releasing a heavily updated version of its site today. It has not happened yet at 1:06 EST, but since Yahoo! is based on the west coast, that is understandable.

You can try the new design and features out at http://www.yahoo.com/preview or just wait until the new site is up and running. I think the new update is certainly an improvement of the tired Yahoo!. This move should help Yahoo! stay competitive with Microsoft’s new Live.com and Google’s personal homepage.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which calls itself “The definitive record of the English language”, Google is now a verb. It still remains to be seen if “to Google” will have the lasting power necessary to become like “to Xerox”.

I don’t use the phrase myself, but I’ve heard it once or twice offline and thousands of times online.

Read more about it at MSNBC.