<div dir="auto">Very interesting Rop. Thanks for sharing</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 14, 2017 12:26 PM, "kanini mutemi via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Wow! Thanks for this Gideon- Genericide!!! <br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Gideon via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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-fea<wbr>tures/genericide-when-brands-g<wbr>et-too-big-2295428.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>
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