(screen shot of Google Spell Check)...and that's all I have to say about that.
UPDATE: It looks like Roger Shuy at Language Log has gotten on this bandwagon (a month after us, but he's welcomed aboard). He re-iterates Faldone's point (see my comments) and suggests that Microsoft might be bucking this trend of verbing a trademark with bing. He then makes (ahem) the same joke I did. Welcome aboard Roger.
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"Binged"? I figured it for a strong verb---uninflected bing, simple past bang, past participle bung.
heehee, strong "bang" could cause problems in the progressive: "Dude, I was banging your sister last night. Guess what I found..."
Considerably less obscene with "googling."
BTW, thanks to the famed wug test, I just assumed a novel verb would be given regular morphology. Though, you're right that it bears a strong resemblance to verbs like sing & wring.
odds of recognising binge-d are pretty high...
And, since Google™ undoubtedly discourages the use of their trademarked name in a generic sense, you'll probably never see its use as a verb in its spell-checker dictionary.
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