Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You 'Googled Something'

Video written by Tristan Purdy

[ItsLunaRegina]

If Google doesn't want me to do it, then I'm definitely going to do it.

[withtheworks]

The same reason Adobe doesn't want you to say 'that photo was obviously photoshopped'

[fabianweber]

_"yeah, i just [redacted] something"_

[ultrawow]

So if the same thing applies to DuckDuckGO, you would say:
"Don't believe me? Duck it!"
"Have you ever tried to Duck yourself?"

[annp]

When I was in Zimbabwe a couple of years ago I realized that when they say “the Google, ” they really mean the entire internet, not just the searching part. As in, “I got on the Google and sent him an email.”

[alexdreFalke]

Lego is facing a similar problem. In fact, they've gone so mad that they sued a German lego YouTuber twice over calling non-Lego products "Lego".

[lifebloodcore]

"photoshopped" is another example of this and people using the word as a generic term is making Adobe mad

[patrickracer]

"You don't believe me? Bing it!" Tell me you're being paid to say something without telling me you're being paid to say something

[ratthew]

Can we appreciate the shot of a girl shampooing her hair when he mentioned “superglue”

[OriginalCreatorSama]

this explains why Adobe really doesn't like the term "Photoshopped"

[forgottenfamily]

Y'know, Google's bizarre potential weird defense against Genericide is that when they're sitting at 92% market share, it might actually be near impossible to prove that when people are using it as a verb that they actually mean any search engine when they say "search engine"

[Eldor-]

In my country (Ethiopia) we call bottled water 'highLand', HighLand was a bottled water brand name that appeared nearly 20years ago, the brand doesnt even exist anymore, but still we call a bottled water 'highland'.

[CBMedia]

This will come up when you Google "Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something""

[Pcat]

Fun fact I one toured a Microsoft campus and an employ unironically told me to "Bing internship opportunities" if I was interested.

[scien]

In the Philippines, some of us call toothpaste "Colgate", since colgate is so popular here. When we buy toothpaste we say "Do you have Colgate? The Close-up one."

[Zeder]

The same is also happening with the term "to photoshop something". It has basically become a synonym for every kind of image editing, no matter with which program.

[tylerprow]

Knowing Google doesn’t want me to say I googled something is all the motivation I need to really double down on saying I googled something.

[smalin]

“google” will almost certainly follow the path of “xerox” — it will be routinely used as a verb, but people will know that Google is the company that did it early on and that that’s where the word comes from. “escalator” isn’t a good example because it’s not the name of the company.

[zacharypegg]

I've actually discussed this topic with people a few times, and I'm really surprised Velcro didn't get a mention. It comes up more often than any other by a long shot in my experience, and I believe the company even made a video to address the issue.

[vxxnsan]

Friend: “How did you find the Google HAI video?”
Me: “I googled it.”