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I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines bef
by roc 13y ago
I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines before Google. [1] Nor do they now feel the need to verb any other search engine, host, portal, network or huge site like imdb, facebook, wikipedia or amazon. [2]
[1] Hotbotted? AltaVista'd? Lycos'd? Yahoo'd? Asked Jeeves? Did any normals ever say any of those things?
[2] "Tweet" is as close as any other service has come to google-style verbing of their brand by the general public. And that's only the case when you stretch the definition of 'general public'.
- X-Istence 13y agoYahoo'd is an actual term I have heard people use. So the verbing is there with that one!
- BCharlie 13y agofacebooked is also a frequent use
- laumars 13y agoThere's "photoshopped". In fact it's often shortened to just "shopped". Even before the internet, verbing was happening. Hoover is a brand of vacuum and people say "hoovered" / "hoovering".
- nikcub 13y agoXerox, Post-it, Frisbee, Roller Blades, Q-tips, White Out, Windex, Viagra, Aspirin, Escalator, Zip-loc, Scotch tape, Polaroid, Jacuzzi, Walkman, Velcro, Super glue All become common English words, many of them in the dictionary but started as brands. There are plenty more if you go back to the 19th century (eg. Heroin) edit: Wikipedia has a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
- roc 13y agoYou seem to be agreeing with me. If "Googled" goes the way of "Xeroxed" then the potential value of "DuckDuckGo-ed" is as irrelevant as "Ricoh-ed".