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@ Chris Trottier
2025-02-25 15:35:15If you dislike Google, saying “Google it” is actually a good thing. Why? Because if a company’s name becomes too common (like how people say “Kleenex” for any tissue), they can lose their legal trademark. Google wants to keep control of their name, so they don’t want you to use “Google” as a generic verb for searching. That means if you keep saying “Google it” for any web search, it could eventually hurt Google’s ownership of the name.