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Discussion on: What's the one thing you always need to google?

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Michiel Hendriks

I know it's a common language now, it wasn't 20 years ago, and we can fix it to become proper again. Google is powerful enough, and they have not proven to be a good shepherd, and thus should not be empowered when not needed.
Additionally for trademark reasons Google does not want people to say they "googled" something, as they would loose the trademark.

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Kovid Rathee

Yes, it can be fixed in the long run if we're persistent enough. I wouldn't say that they have not proven to be a good shepherd entirely. There are very good things about them and there are a couple of shady things about them. To counter those shady things, some of the IDW people started OpenAI - to secure a better future by distributing power rather than concentrating it. I think that approach will succeed in the long run. About Google losing the trademark - I don't think that's going to happen. But I like surprises.