Give me a break
Tara Calashain's very excellent ResearchBuzz newsletter recently brought to my attention a Silicon.com article about how Google doesn't want people to use Google as a verb anymore, arguing that such use is "potentially damaging to its brand."
*blinks*
Are they kidding? Do they not realize that use of this the word Google in this manner is an indication of Google's incredible dominance of the tech world? ("Potentially damaging" indeed!) Shouldn't Google have thought of this before Google was added to the OED and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 11th earlier this summer?
So what's next? Is Google going to sue mathematicians for using the word googol, arguing that it might cause the general public to expect any Internet search through Google to yield a 1 followed by one hundred zeroes?
*blinks*
Are they kidding? Do they not realize that use of this the word Google in this manner is an indication of Google's incredible dominance of the tech world? ("Potentially damaging" indeed!) Shouldn't Google have thought of this before Google was added to the OED and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 11th earlier this summer?
So what's next? Is Google going to sue mathematicians for using the word googol, arguing that it might cause the general public to expect any Internet search through Google to yield a 1 followed by one hundred zeroes?
1 Comments:
good rant! :)
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