Dont' say "Google"
Thursday, August 17, 2006 by Island Dog | Discussion: Google
Now they are taking themselves way too seriously.
| Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as "to google someone." The Internet search giant said such phrases were potentially damaging to its brand. "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. |
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Moderateman
Reply #22 Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:42 PM
Reply #22 Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:42 PM
I say we start A CAMPAIN to use the term "Google" for defecating.
As in ow my stomach hurts I need to take a google. heh
Dr Guy
Reply #23 Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:53 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:53 PM
| As in ow my stomach hurts I need to take a google. heh |
Google is such a fun word. We can create googles of meanings for it. 
dragonmage
Reply #24 Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:09 PM
Thats actually "googol" , which I think is a much more amusing spelling.
So how exactly can Google determine if the word spoken is "Google" or "googol"?
Reply #24 Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:09 PM
| More importantly, would they sue the discipline of mathematics for coming up with the term googles of years ago to mean a very large number? |
Thats actually "googol" , which I think is a much more amusing spelling.
So how exactly can Google determine if the word spoken is "Google" or "googol"?
Dr Guy
Reply #25 Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:24 PM
Arrrggg! With that new technology that Stardock has created! Just ask Capt'n Starkers!
p.s. Thanks for the spelling, I was always lousy in that area.
Reply #25 Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:24 PM
| Thats actually "googol" , which I think is a much more amusing spelling. So how exactly can Google determine if the word spoken is "Google" or "googol"? |
Arrrggg! With that new technology that Stardock has created! Just ask Capt'n Starkers!
p.s. Thanks for the spelling, I was always lousy in that area.
Jafo
Reply #26 Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:54 PM
Reply #26 Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:54 PM
Trying to lay claim to a name as a trademark and subsequently control its use isn't as easy as some would like to think....
Just ask that US Co that tried to Hijack the name 'Ugg Boot' and claim it as its own....even to the height of affrontery of demanding a dictionary redefine the term to reflect this ownership claim....
Dr Guy
Reply #27 Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:13 PM
Get back on the boat! We need ye to get to Stardock!
Reply #27 Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:13 PM
| Just ask that US Co that tried to Hijack the name 'Ugg Boot' and claim it as its own....even to the height of affrontery of demanding a dictionary redefine the term to reflect this ownership claim.... |
Get back on the boat! We need ye to get to Stardock!
starkers
Reply #28 Friday, August 18, 2006 1:22 AM
I've heard the term 'hoover the carpets' umteen times over the years...think it comes from the fact that Hoover manufactured the first and only commercially available vaccuum cleaner. My mother now owns an Electrolux, but she still refers to it as hoovering.
Thing is 'Windows' has more or less become a generic term of reference for any window opened on a computer, including Macs. Besides, umpteen different companies have included 'Window/s' in the names of their software, including Stardock with WindowFX. I think a problem would arise, however, if someone tried to release an OS with the name Windows.
Personally, I think it's ridiculous that a company which operates in the public domain would try to limit the general use of names that have become household terms by which people identify various products...it's like being sued for calling a spade a spade.
And don't get me started on the McDonalds fast food juggernaut, which sued an independent bakery that also sold burgers, pies and etc here in Oz. It had been trading under the McDonalds name since 1863, a good century before Ronald Mcdonald was ever thought of, but the U.S. fast food giant still won the case to stop the bakery using the name....effing ridiculous and wrong. The bakery no longer exists ....bankrupted by the enormous costs imposed on it to defend its legal right to use its own family name.
Reply #28 Friday, August 18, 2006 1:22 AM
Who says that? |
I've heard the term 'hoover the carpets' umteen times over the years...think it comes from the fact that Hoover manufactured the first and only commercially available vaccuum cleaner. My mother now owns an Electrolux, but she still refers to it as hoovering.
| So if Microsoft didn't prevent people from using the word "Windows" in some other piece of software it moves into public domain and EVERYONE can use it. |
Thing is 'Windows' has more or less become a generic term of reference for any window opened on a computer, including Macs. Besides, umpteen different companies have included 'Window/s' in the names of their software, including Stardock with WindowFX. I think a problem would arise, however, if someone tried to release an OS with the name Windows.
Personally, I think it's ridiculous that a company which operates in the public domain would try to limit the general use of names that have become household terms by which people identify various products...it's like being sued for calling a spade a spade.
And don't get me started on the McDonalds fast food juggernaut, which sued an independent bakery that also sold burgers, pies and etc here in Oz. It had been trading under the McDonalds name since 1863, a good century before Ronald Mcdonald was ever thought of, but the U.S. fast food giant still won the case to stop the bakery using the name....effing ridiculous and wrong. The bakery no longer exists ....bankrupted by the enormous costs imposed on it to defend its legal right to use its own family name.
Dr Guy
Reply #29 Friday, August 18, 2006 7:23 AM
My ex used the term as well.
Reply #29 Friday, August 18, 2006 7:23 AM
| I've heard the term 'hoover the carpets' umteen times over the years... |
My ex used the term as well.
Jafo
Reply #30 Friday, August 18, 2006 9:23 AM
Reply #30 Friday, August 18, 2006 9:23 AM
Biros for ballpoint pens....Durex for sticky tape [no, not just condoms]....Coke for Cola....there's countless trade-names used as generics ...so that's why Google will be knackered at every turn if it wants to try post-coital prophilactics....
starkers
Reply #31 Friday, August 18, 2006 10:47 PM
So that's why the backwater family in central Tassie have 16 kids...they confused the two.
Might have to clear that one up for them....loan them my spare TV.
Reply #31 Friday, August 18, 2006 10:47 PM
| Durex for sticky tape [no, not just condoms]. |
So that's why the backwater family in central Tassie have 16 kids...they confused the two.
Might have to clear that one up for them....loan them my spare TV.
MasonM
Reply #32 Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:24 PM
Reply #32 Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:24 PM
Perhaps the good folks at Google should google the word 'asshat'.
Dr Guy
Reply #33 Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:55 PM
LOL
I dont think they would like the results!
Reply #33 Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:55 PM
| Perhaps the good folks at Google should google the word 'asshat'. |
LOL
I dont think they would like the results!
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Reply #21 Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:11 PM
So do we have to now start calling them "Clear panes of melted silica" instead?