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> I'll save you the Google effort It's kind of sad that the act of searching the web is now reduced to a brand name. I'm not blaming you, I say it too. With t
by rhizome31 13y ago
> I'll save you the Google effort
It's kind of sad that the act of searching the web is now reduced to a brand name. I'm not blaming you, I say it too. With the PRISM and friend revelation I feel it's time to go back to what we used to say before Google quasi-monopoly became effective and use generic terms like "search engine", "search the web", etc.
- dmix 13y agoTrue, I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but I still call it googling. But people who try to change language forcefully are annoying and mostly wasting their time (see the politically-correct crowd). It has to occur naturally. So I'm ok with it being google for now. Photocopying in favor of Xeroxing has somewhat faded. Although calling tissues Kleenex is still going strong.
- rhizome31 13y agoInteresting, the long term perspective didn't cross my mind. Let's hope it does indeed turn out this way.
- HNLogInShit 13y agoIf I didn't use Google, I wouldn't say "Google", and would never say "google" regardless. There are some regions in which people call every carbonated beverage, regardless of flavor or brand, "Coke." That's just dumb.
- kbd 13y agoGoogle is one in a long line of brand names that are so ubiquitous they come to identify the category. Kleenex, Photoshop, Bandaid, and so on. There's nothing wrong with it.
- nitrogen 13y agoThere's nothing wrong with it. There is one thing wrong with it: the originators of those words still claim ownership over the name, even though it has, for all intents and purposes, become a generic word.
- chrischen 13y agoWe also call tissues Kleenex... not really an issue.