How Googling Can Get You Foogled: Google Goes RIAA On Us

14 Aug in google, trademarks

Well...Guess what. You know how all those curmudgeons who don't know the first thing about linguistics like to talk about the degeneration of our language? How all those kids running around "googling" things are butcherating it? Well, looks like they might have some legal reinforcement now: Everybody's pet rock company is now sending C&Ds to publishers asking them to stop "googling" things. Why? Because it's obviously a violation of Google's trademark. They don't want to be xeroxed into generic oblivion, for God (TM)'s sake. Looks like the little honeymoon with Google as a company run by actual human beings (TM) is over, folks. Now he's fat and drinking too much beer. Ew. Stinky Google.

So, now we can start using Microsoft's totally kick ass search engine? It's wayyyy better than Google. I mean, I'm MSN Searching like all the time. "I was MSN Searching the other day..." Got a nice ring to it, eh? Definitely lacks that sexual allure of "googling," (I still get this image involving latex and a snorkel everytime I hear it), so that's probably a good thing.

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Hey Adobe (R) -- Photoshop (R) THIS!

A few years ago, Adobe sent out a similar message about "photoshop." I "ran a Google search" of the Adobe website and found the generic use of words such as coke, dumpster, xerox, white-out... the list went on. You might find amusing.

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=2158

 

Dennis G. Jerz
Jerz's Literacy Weblog

That's hilarious

Thanks so much for that, Dennis. It's really laughable how Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software stupid these lawyers come off sometimes. God Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software, that really, really mother Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software my Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.

To be blunt, they can kiss my Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.

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Feed

There's a young adult novel with the title Feed, or maybe The Feed and part of what makes it a fun read is they have "clouds ™" and other common, to us, and generic items that are trademarked because there are no more real clouds, etc.. Kinda like patenting online learning ala Blackboard, or my genetic code.

bradley || bleckblog.org

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