Bush uses 'The Google' to pull up maps of 'The Ranch'

U.S. President George W. Bush, who is fond of inserting the word "the" where it shouldn't belong, recently stated that he's used "the Google" to look at his Crawford, Texas ranch, where the President said he'd sometimes like to be (when he's not there). I guess standing up to legions of public scrutiny and international terrorists sometimes makes Bush want to crawl back to his ranch to relax, if that's even possible. Hey, we all have hard days, don't we?

But, this post is more than Bush using "the Google" to find things using "the Google Earth" program he downloaded from "the Internets." It's about how pervasive some of Google's offerings are, even in the White House.

Sure, Bush was prompted by a reporter's question into answering about his usage regarding "the Google," but notice that the reporter did not mention "Yahoo! Maps" or "Mapquest" -- he went straight to Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG).

Is that heavy brand power? Yes it is. But one thing is for certain -- Bush isn't using " the Gmail." When asked about his use of email, Bush stated "I tend not to e-mail ... I don't e-mail because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don't want to receive e-mails because, you know, there's no telling what somebody's e-mail may -- it would show up as, you know, as part of some kind of a story, and I wouldn't be able to say, 'Well, I didn't read the e-mail'. 'But I sent it to your address, how can you say you didn't?' So, in other words, I'm very cautious about e-mailing."

Although there's some confusing repetition there, I think I understand why Bush doesn't tend to e-mail. I think I understand.