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Dont' say "Google"

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6106479.html
from WinCustomize Forums
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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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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....

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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....


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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've heard the term 'hoover the carpets' umteen times over the years...


My ex used the term as well.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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....
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
Perhaps the good folks at Google should google the word 'asshat'.
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
Perhaps the good folks at Google should google the word 'asshat'.


LOL

I dont think they would like the results!