Published on August 17, 2006 By Island Dog In 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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on Aug 17, 2006
"Google" is gonna become a swearword soon, i bet ya.

Oh google, i burnt my googleing toast!!!
Give me the googleing remote!!!
Get off the googleing couch you googleing peice of google!!!

Get my point?!??!
on Aug 17, 2006
I dont want to de-rail this amazing thread, but when i highlight some text, and hit quote it does not work, it jsut puts quotes, now if i highlight the entire area it works:

#16 by The_Muggar
Thu, August 17, 2006 0:15 PM
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"Google" is gonna become a swearword soon, i bet ya.

Oh google, i burnt my googleing toast!!!
Give me the googleing remote!!!
Get off the googleing couch you googleing peice of google!!!

Get my point?!??!


than i assume i would have to edit that and remove all the extra stuff?
on Aug 17, 2006
Dont' say "Google It"


Okay, I won't! Go Yahoo It! Which is what I do anyway....never, ever use Google!

Hey Jafo, isn't a google the ball bowlers used to bowl until Shane Warne perfected it and called it the googley? More to the point, could Google sue our cricketers for the term, which essentially uses their trademark name with a Y on it?


This Google business is a load of old poppycock....I mean, do Hoover bitch about possible confusion when people say: "I gonna hoover the carpets."?

Oh well, if that's the case, an Oz mower manufacturer is gonna be mighty pissed off, then, cos I'm gonna Victa my lawns over the weekend.
on Aug 17, 2006
I gonna hoover the carpets."


Who says that?

Intelectual property is worth defending. If a company doesn't defend it's name anyone can use it.

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. Then Microsoft use of it is worthless (and after enough time and money building the name, it's a significant loss).
on Aug 17, 2006
Hey Jafo, isn't a google the ball bowlers used to bowl until Shane Warne perfected it and called it the googley? More to the point, could Google sue our cricketers for the term, which essentially uses their trademark name with a Y on it?


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?
on Aug 17, 2006
So if Microsoft didn't prevent people from using the word "Windows"


So do we have to now start calling them "Clear panes of melted silica" instead?
on Aug 17, 2006

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

on Aug 17, 2006

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.

on Aug 17, 2006
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"?
on Aug 17, 2006
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.
on Aug 17, 2006

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....

on Aug 17, 2006
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!
on Aug 18, 2006

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.
on Aug 18, 2006
I've heard the term 'hoover the carpets' umteen times over the years...


My ex used the term as well.
on Aug 18, 2006
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....
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