<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I stumbled upon this interesting article on IP<br><br>What do escalators, asprin and yo-yos have in common? They're all victims of 'genericide'. Rhodri Marsden explores the perils of ubiquity for products; ...<br><br>From the article, one of the most regularly used verbs in the 21st century that shouldn't
be used as a verb at all is "to google". When we refer to "googling" for
products and services, we generally mean visiting <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> and typing
in a query – but it could equally mean searching the internet by other
means, too. There was a point where Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's
founders, would have embraced the idea of their brand into a verb;
indeed, the first reference found to "googling" occurs within something
posted online by Page himself on 8 July 1998.<br><br><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/genericide-when-brands-get-too-big-2295428.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/<wbr>news/business/analysis-and-<wbr>features/genericide-when-<wbr>brands-get-too-big-2295428.<wbr>html</a><br><br></div>B<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">est,<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">Rop.</div></div>