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kottke.org posts about genericide

posted Aug 14 @ 06:35 PM by Jason Kottke

Google is not starting to become concerned about their name being used as a generic verb meaning “to search”; they’ve been concerned for more than 3 years (more here). This movement to expose Google as big, dumb, and humorless strikes me as big, dumb, and humorless.