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Does anyone else refuse to use corporate invented verbs?

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Gareth

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Is it just me, or does the idea of everyone running around spouting things like "just google it" or "Ive been twittering all day" annoys the absolutely shit out of you?

I mean Google have got to be sitting back thinking that they have the world sewn up for the next couple hundred years. Theyve somehow branded the activity of searching the WWW as something that is associated with Google. I do use Google but I refer to "google" anything.

For some reason it just drives me crazy when people say to just google something. I know google are rubbing their greedy hands together patting themselves on the back that their plan worked.

So in the future, please dont google anything - search for something (using google if you like).

What else is there? I know there are others that get on my nerves but Im drawing a blank.
 
I am going to google google to find you how often people say they are going to google goolge and then actually do google google. It doesn't bother me. GOOGLE
 
Aaron LeClair said:
No, I'm too busy being annoyed at a billion other issues. Twittering or whatever? Not heard that one.
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Its another fine service brought to you by the fine folks at web 2.0

meh, google it if you want to know more. If you want I can xerox this press release and hotmail it to you.
 
GSB said:
meh, google it if you want to know more. If you want I can xerox this press release and hotmail it to you.
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Is that an attempt to be ironic?

It doesn't bother me because it's inevitable. In fact you just demonstrated another version of the same thing by typing "xerox" instead of "photocopy" (intentionally?).

Branding invariably creeps into the language over time. Kleenex, coke, xerox, scotch tape, Google, whatever the ubiquitous brand is, that becomes the word of choice. My mother still refers to all vaccuum cleaners as "hoovers" despite having not owned that particular brand since the 70s.

In the digital age it's taken to even stranger extremes. Take "podcast". Not everyone listens on an iPod or on an MP3 player at all and in reality it's just an audio file (usually an MP3) but for some weird-ass reason the term has stuck.
 
Yes but its the words that are chosen with such an outcome in mind. I guess if it works then A+ to the marketing department. Its just the extent that google as a verb has taken off.

I bet most people that use dont even realise that its just a search engine. If you told them Yahoo was the same thing they wouldnt understand.

It just irritates me. if it happens over a fairly long period of time and is the result of a successful and reliable product/brand, then fine.
 
GSB said:
It just irritates me. if it happens over a fairly long period of time and is the result of a successful and reliable product/brand, then fine.
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But again, we're talking abut the digital age. Comparitively speaking, Google has been around for a long time. And it's "brand leader". I think you just don't like the fact it's misspelled...
 
CapnG said:
But again, we're talking abut the digital age. Comparitively speaking, Google has been around for a long time. And it's "brand leader". I think you just don't like the fact it's misspelled...
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No, honestly I just dont like to give Google corporate what they want. You really cant ask for anything more for your brand.
 
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