Google doesn’t want you to ‘google’ anymore
If this isn’t splitting hairs, I don’t know what is! Google seems to no longer be the happy fun loving company it once was, with its maturity it seems to have a problem with how people perceive its brand.
In order to ‘preserve its brand’ the search giant has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as “to google someone.”
“We think it’s important to make the distinction between using the word ‘Google’ to describe using Google to search the Internet and using the word ‘google’ to generally describe searching the Internet. It has some serious trademark issues,” a representative for the search company said.
Come on, isn’t it positive sign when your brand name is synonymous with your product? For example, Band-Aid for bandages, Kleenex for tissues, and Q-Tips for cotton swabs. Why is Google crying when they are the leader in the search industry? I would understand if there was a clone site out there claiming to Google, but for someone to say they are ‘googling’ something when the search the web seems fair game.
