Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
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Published 2021-03-18
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All Comments (21)
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In protest of Google trying to restrict my free speech, I'm going to abstain from G**gling anything for the next month! Of course, that could make finding HAI topics hard, so I'll need some help with that. Submit your topic suggestion at the following Google form and then, if we use yours, we'll send you an HAI t-shirt (eventually, it takes a while to go through all the suggestions and find who was first for a given topic.): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8An…
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The same reason Adobe doesn't want you to say 'that photo was obviously photoshopped'
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"yeah, i just [redacted] something"
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So if the same thing applies to DuckDuckGO, you would say: "Don't believe me? Duck it!" "Have you ever tried to Duck yourself?"
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"You don't believe me? Bing it!" Tell me you're being paid to say something without telling me you're being paid to say something
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Lego is facing a similar problem. In fact, they've gone so mad that they sued a German lego YouTuber twice over calling non-Lego products "Lego".
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If Google doesn't want me to do it, then I'm definitely going to do it.
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This might be a fight Google has already lost. "To google something" or "I googled it" have long since become ubiquitous for people doing web searches.
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In the library right now and I hear people talking about “googling” for their research paper, it’s such a common colloquial term at this point. Good luck Google
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this explains why Adobe really doesn't like the term "Photoshopped"
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"photoshopped" is another example of this and people using the word as a generic term is making Adobe mad
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I've actually discussed this topic with people a few times, and I'm really surprised Velcro didn't get a mention. It comes up more often than any other by a long shot in my experience, and I believe the company even made a video to address the issue.
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In my country (Ethiopia) we call bottled water 'highLand', HighLand was a bottled water brand name that appeared nearly 20years ago, the brand doesnt even exist anymore, but still we call a bottled water 'highland'.
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This will come up when you Google "Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something""
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When I was in Zimbabwe a couple of years ago I realized that when they say “the Google,” they really mean the entire internet, not just the searching part. As in, “I got on the Google and sent him an email.”
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In the army they made a huge deal about referring to "Velcro™" as hook and loop fasteners. This is because they did not use Velcro™ on the ACU, they used hook and loop fasteners.
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To be fair when someone says google it, that quite literally means google it
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“google” will almost certainly follow the path of “xerox” — it will be routinely used as a verb, but people will know that Google is the company that did it early on and that that’s where the word comes from. “escalator” isn’t a good example because it’s not the name of the company.
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Knowing Google doesn’t want me to say I googled something is all the motivation I need to really double down on saying I googled something.
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The same is also happening with the term "to photoshop something". It has basically become a synonym for every kind of image editing, no matter with which program.
