This is hilarious. Check out this gem from the blog:
we’d like to make clear that you should please only use “Google” when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services.
I’ll not go into the marketing aspects of a genericized trademark since Google has put it so succinctly. But they must be joking… asking consumers to “please” not overuse the word google as a verb
Yeah right. Sure I won’t.
I think it makes sense and Google does have a long term vision. I believe their point of view is that if google becomes a lexicon and gets into the dictionary, then there is a good possibility of copyright violations. People could freely use google in the name of their company and say that it’s a dictionary word, hence it cannot be copyrighted. eg: I could start a travelgoogle.com or a photogoogle.com and so on. I would say they are really smart and learn from History. Take the case of photocopiers.. People say Xerox for photocopying. The brand is so diluted that one would walk to a canon shop and ask to purchase a Xerox machine.
Left by Ram on November 22nd, 2006
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