I went to gargoyle.com and found a variety of things including, gargoyles, 
sun glasses, etc.  So I reasoned that gargoyle must be a pun on google.

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From: "Denny Esterline" <firmware@tds.net>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [EE] Gargoyle?


>> I've heard a couple of references to Gargoyle lately, googling Gargoyle 
>> and
>> Electronics doesn't come up with anything too spectacular... can anyone
>> enlighten me?
>>
>> Blair
>>
> As others have pointed out gargoyle is used as a euphemism for google, but 
> it did come about for more reasons than just "techno-speak". Back a few 
> months ago Google was involved in some legal fuss about people using the 
> term google as a generic verb meaning "to search the web" instead of their 
> preferred Google, a proper (and trademarked) noun.
>
> -Denny
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