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

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  3 роки тому +5810

    In protest of Google trying to restrict my free speech, I'm going to abstain from G**gling anything for the next month! Of course, that could make finding HAI topics hard, so I'll need some help with that. Submit your topic suggestion at the following Google form and then, if we use yours, we'll send you an HAI t-shirt (eventually, it takes a while to go through all the suggestions and find who was first for a given topic.): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

    • @known-bug
      @known-bug 3 роки тому +201

      Consider binging your research instead!

    • @defiantenigma3552
      @defiantenigma3552 3 роки тому +33

      Thanks for the great content an perfect mix of humour and information!

    • @lazargames7015
      @lazargames7015 3 роки тому +6

      I'm your mom

    • @stalwartneon8251
      @stalwartneon8251 3 роки тому +105

      Still uses a Google doc

    • @bengoacher4455
      @bengoacher4455 3 роки тому +16

      Can we have a video on bricks that is fair and balanced and not the hateful propaganda in the concrete video you made?

  • @ItsLunaRegina
    @ItsLunaRegina 3 роки тому +9448

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

    • @danielyeshe
      @danielyeshe 3 роки тому +313

      Indeed. Also that ship has sailed. If Google suddenly vanished I think people would still say googled it!

    • @glanni
      @glanni 3 роки тому +85

      I had the same reaction. I was about to say it a bit less for no particular reason, but now I will make a conscious effort to say it more.

    • @goku-sangreen4510
      @goku-sangreen4510 3 роки тому +39

      Google: dont give me your money pls
      Us: Send money go brr

    • @riexrickgaming
      @riexrickgaming 3 роки тому +19

      i dont believe you, i just googled it

    • @QuackVX
      @QuackVX 3 роки тому +1

      @i l w?

  • @fabianweber6937
    @fabianweber6937 3 роки тому +2983

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

    • @badgerous8320
      @badgerous8320 3 роки тому +27

      you googled something something

    • @mastergamingnic1681
      @mastergamingnic1681 3 роки тому +71

      @@badgerous8320
      Oh no, you absolute madlad... cease and desist coming your way

    • @03.ximipa3ahmadrinofarosmu3
      @03.ximipa3ahmadrinofarosmu3 3 роки тому +32

      New video idea, 'Why the Scp foundation doesn't want you to say you _'[Redacted] something'_

    • @zyde3396
      @zyde3396 3 роки тому +7

      Found the scp reader

    • @frank7328
      @frank7328 3 роки тому +1

      Shooble booped

  • @annp322
    @annp322 3 роки тому +2142

    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.”

    • @ke6gwf
      @ke6gwf 3 роки тому +202

      Well, if they were using Gmail, that would be correct!

    • @videotaper2272
      @videotaper2272 3 роки тому +328

      Well, my dad calls the whole internet "the E-mail"...

    • @videotaper2272
      @videotaper2272 3 роки тому +81

      @@Kuumin
      He doesn't have the internet so he has to come over here when he needs me to print something out for him.
      Fortunately he's never asked me to print out the entire thing...

    • @orcahhh8017
      @orcahhh8017 3 роки тому +64

      This is because companies try to have the monopoly over internet in theses countries
      You will also find countries where Facebook means internet, and people know nothing other than Facebook

    • @orcahhh8017
      @orcahhh8017 3 роки тому +40

      @Maxx B. well of course not
      But Facebook is preinstalled, and you can't uninstall it, and default message app is messenger
      If you add that most of the times this is someone's forst interaction with a connected device and the first and only thing they see is fb, and every single one of their friends and family uses fb only, how could you know anything else

  • @ultrawow65
    @ultrawow65 3 роки тому +1885

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

    • @pvic6959
      @pvic6959 3 роки тому +257

      what are you, on Quack?!

    • @nefelibatacomingthrough2707
      @nefelibatacomingthrough2707 3 роки тому +184

      "I duckduckwent that paper. You should duckduckgo something too."

    • @rappcu
      @rappcu 3 роки тому +66

      @@nefelibatacomingthrough2707 rolls right off the tongue doesn't it? Ungenericizable.

    • @amadeosendiulo2137
      @amadeosendiulo2137 2 роки тому +34

      You're ducking right ;-)

    • @aleynab8583
      @aleynab8583 2 роки тому +6

      That's what YOU said

  • @withtheworks
    @withtheworks 3 роки тому +6820

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

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому +1945

      I think you mean 'that photo was obviously doctored using a nonspecific photo editing program on your computing device'
      this comment was sponsored by Adobe™

    • @InternetKilledTV21
      @InternetKilledTV21 3 роки тому +143

      @Alpha Sancho paint

    • @swedneck
      @swedneck 3 роки тому +185

      @Alpha Sancho GIMP works, probably darktable too.

    • @wezpa
      @wezpa 3 роки тому +371

      I googled on bing how to artists Photoshop pictures in GIMP.

    • @gui18bif
      @gui18bif 3 роки тому +104

      That's proper annoying. People are saying videos are photshopped when they look fake

  • @lifebloodcore2106
    @lifebloodcore2106 3 роки тому +2632

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

    • @applesyrupgaming
      @applesyrupgaming 3 роки тому +33

      yeah or they will lose rights

    • @glanni
      @glanni 3 роки тому +331

      I feel no sympathy.

    • @Jemppu
      @Jemppu 3 роки тому +106

      "Legos", and not only for Lego, but for generic building bricks too.

    • @vader9860
      @vader9860 3 роки тому +180

      @@Jemppu I feel like Lego is too recognized to be forgotten. It will always be known as "The Lego"

    • @ShoulderMonster
      @ShoulderMonster 3 роки тому +144

      @@vader9860 It also helps that Legos have such a consistent quality. Any other brand doesn't live up to Legos...
      As a kid I didn't like the off brands much, but I'd still call them legos. They just weren't _the_ Legos.

  • @alexdreFalke
    @alexdreFalke 3 роки тому +2096

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

    • @brickbot2.038
      @brickbot2.038 3 роки тому +375

      You wouldn't understand. Lego bricks and non-Lego bricks are in no way the same, and non-Lego should never be called Lego.
      This message was brought to you by a Lego fan.

    • @raceris7309
      @raceris7309 3 роки тому +229

      @@brickbot2.038 Lego bricks have become so universal that any brick with joints is now simply referred as "Lego".

    • @Emily-fm7pt
      @Emily-fm7pt 3 роки тому +75

      They sent cease and desist letters to people in the 3d printing community who had *free* models with the name lego on it...

    • @finjassauer
      @finjassauer 3 роки тому +29

      Oh andere deutsche hier hahaha

    • @gurrrn1102
      @gurrrn1102 3 роки тому +14

      At least that youtuber wasn't Sam, in which case he'd pollute our ears by calling it Laygoze

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 3 роки тому +1955

    "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

    • @toad3222
      @toad3222 3 роки тому +73

      That show has hilariously obvious advertisements

    • @kaldogorath
      @kaldogorath 3 роки тому +65

      I've gone through many phases where I used other search engines the way people use google - verbally I mean. I've said "bing it", "yahoo it", "go ask jeeves", "duck duck go look it up", among others.

    • @Roberto577_One
      @Roberto577_One 3 роки тому +64

      I prefer Edging

    • @elynmartinez4896
      @elynmartinez4896 2 роки тому +6

      @@Roberto577_One That’s a browser thiugh

    • @michaelschlem2849
      @michaelschlem2849 2 роки тому

      3-15-22
      Not unless you are the Bing Boy. At least, that's what Nogla and the Vanoss Crew Said.

  • @ratthew42
    @ratthew42 3 роки тому +9840

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

    • @sebastianfeuerstein9306
      @sebastianfeuerstein9306 3 роки тому +202

      Just noticed that 😂

    • @nagitokomaeda3237
      @nagitokomaeda3237 3 роки тому +93

      shred /dev/sda

    • @ayeshahussain3551
      @ayeshahussain3551 3 роки тому +217

      Time stamp 3:39

    • @gnualmafuerte
      @gnualmafuerte 3 роки тому +171

      @@nagitokomaeda3237 I stared at your comment for like a minute because I couldn't figure out what shreding your disk had to do with superglue. "There must be some hidden joke here". Then I noticed OP's username.

    • @gnualmafuerte
      @gnualmafuerte 3 роки тому +53

      @@valantisalatsas7249 Sometimes I think I'm part velociraptor: If it's not moving, I can't see it.

  • @CBMedia404
    @CBMedia404 3 роки тому +8611

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

    • @DyslexicMitochondria
      @DyslexicMitochondria 3 роки тому +404

      Honestly google tracks your every move. I emailed my mom about how church is a scam and now im being bombarded with ads on "Jesus loves you". Even my yt channel is now showing ads on jesus haha

    • @tomhappening
      @tomhappening 3 роки тому +47

      @@DyslexicMitochondria ayyy I watch your channel. Love your vids bro

    • @MidiMaze178
      @MidiMaze178 3 роки тому +7

      I’d hope so

    • @lunar9650
      @lunar9650 3 роки тому +5

      lol

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 роки тому +47

      @@DyslexicMitochondria yesh once we talked about biscuits and facebook burst with ads of biscuits. Same with Google on clothes

  • @OriginalCreatorSama
    @OriginalCreatorSama 3 роки тому +3275

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

    • @lightningmcqueen1717
      @lightningmcqueen1717 3 роки тому +78

      i think its stupid personally like "google it" only is used for the google search engine its not a term for firefox or like edge. same as photoshopped would only be used for photoshop not whatever the alternative is
      edit: dumb fucks if you want the correction look down below 😭

    • @OriginalCreatorSama
      @OriginalCreatorSama 3 роки тому +137

      @@lightningmcqueen1717 Nope. there's legal action that's been taken by both companies because searching things online in general is defaulting to "Google it" and Google isn't happy because it might threaten the trademark of the company. similarly, any edited photo is widely considered to be "photoshopped" to the point that my phone knows the word even though i don't use it. Photoshop is getting grumpy about trademarks for the same reason here.
      It's not a matter of what's accurate, it's about what's legal. and legally, if the words become general and not specific, they lose their trademark because you can't legally trademark general used words like "oceans" or "react", a law that also covers words that didn't start as general but became that way over time.

    • @OriginalCreatorSama
      @OriginalCreatorSama 3 роки тому +10

      @@lightningmcqueen1717 also i am tired and forgot what video this was on, sorry for the recap.

    • @lightningmcqueen1717
      @lightningmcqueen1717 3 роки тому +58

      @@OriginalCreatorSama i disagree with the google thing but the photoshop one is a bit more convincing. i still think that google it only aplies to google.

    • @TilDrill
      @TilDrill 3 роки тому +14

      @@lightningmcqueen1717 firefox uses google

  • @TheTomimt
    @TheTomimt 3 роки тому +406

    This might be a fight Google has already lost. "To google something" or "I googled it" have long since become ubiquitous for people doing web searches.

    • @TheAkashicTraveller
      @TheAkashicTraveller 3 роки тому +2

      Unfortunatly our court systems are so f'ed it seems they can just delay it perpetuarlly. Same with photoshop and who knows how many others.

    • @TheAkashicTraveller
      @TheAkashicTraveller 3 роки тому +4

      Velcro, zipper...

    • @leang8441
      @leang8441 2 роки тому +27

      I think the defense would be that googling still refers to Google specifically and not the search engine because the vast majority of people use Google and refer to Google when saying so. Usually, you wouldn't way you're googling something when using Bing.

    • @KuromoriArima
      @KuromoriArima 2 роки тому +6

      @@leang8441 good point, but I'd like to google something on bing

    • @karlovisttimes8271
      @karlovisttimes8271 2 роки тому +5

      @@leang8441 I use ecosia and still say "googling", so

  • @tylerprow7563
    @tylerprow7563 3 роки тому +1283

    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.

    • @erdling3132
      @erdling3132 3 роки тому +38

      Google after reading your comment: 😔😕🙁😥😭😣

    • @demonboy7777
      @demonboy7777 3 роки тому +38

      Just remember to say you googled something using bing since googling with google doesn't change google.

    • @MunkiZee
      @MunkiZee 3 роки тому +25

      Their legal department doesn't want you to, their marketing department however very much does want you to do that

    • @potatoxel7800
      @potatoxel7800 3 роки тому +7

      you googled something on bing? or did you bing something on google?

    • @brianw1620
      @brianw1620 3 роки тому +24

      I google things on DuckDuckGo.

  • @smalin
    @smalin 3 роки тому +2673

    “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.

    • @coin5207
      @coin5207 3 роки тому +21

      Agreed

    • @PacificEmperor
      @PacificEmperor 3 роки тому +57

      What does "xerox" mean? I only know it as the company.

    • @nickeman132
      @nickeman132 3 роки тому +124

      @@PacificEmperor folks use xerox as a term for "to scan and print" here in the Philippines at least

    • @Emily-ye1rj
      @Emily-ye1rj 3 роки тому +24

      Kleenex

    • @smalin
      @smalin 3 роки тому +43

      @@PacificEmperor It meant "photocopy."

  • @forgottenfamily
    @forgottenfamily 3 роки тому +761

    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"

    • @fermitupoupon1754
      @fermitupoupon1754 3 роки тому +40

      But then again, Google only has 90+% of the market if you ignore the Chinese market. So depending on your geopolitical angle, Google may only control as "little" as 70% of the market.

    • @forgottenfamily
      @forgottenfamily 3 роки тому +138

      @@fermitupoupon1754 Somehow, I don't think the colloquialisms of Chinese society will matter that much in a US trademark lawsuit

    • @rickyboii5971
      @rickyboii5971 3 роки тому +23

      @@fermitupoupon1754 I think chinese people don't say that they will google something they day they will baidu something.

    • @trudojo
      @trudojo 3 роки тому +27

      @@fermitupoupon1754 which makes the legal argument worse because it proves people do not use the word google generically, as they don't "google" things in china

    • @redapol5678
      @redapol5678 3 роки тому

      @@forgottenfamily well they cared enough about Sweden’s misuse of the term according to the video so why not China?

  • @Eldor-117
    @Eldor-117 Рік тому +12

    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'.

  • @astrolonim2032
    @astrolonim2032 3 роки тому +1100

    “Ping-Pong” is also a useless trademark. rip my PE teacher who always tried to get us to call it table tennis, the war is well since over.

    • @ca-ke9493
      @ca-ke9493 3 роки тому +109

      Wait ping pong is a brand? I always thought that was just the english-ized chinese name for table tennis

    • @Wow-uk2on
      @Wow-uk2on 3 роки тому +79

      @@ca-ke9493 Ping-Pong (the game) was invented in like, late 1800's England iirc, and there were one brand that sold really nice paddles, and it was called Ping-Pong, and people used both table tennis and ping-pong as a name for the sport.
      it became hugely popular in communist China during the civil war and became more popular since, and is now considered the national sport, with over 1/ 3 of the world population of table tennis players in China.
      I think the mistake comes from the name Ping-Pong (which sounds like a Chinese word) and the fact that table tennis is so popular in China
      (and the Chinese word for table tennis is 乒乓球 pīngpāngqiú)

    • @Docdoozer
      @Docdoozer 3 роки тому +53

      Meanwhile in Sweden, or at least where I live in Sweden, we call it "Pingis" so like "ping" combined with "tennis" to form "pingis".

    • @cockenballtorture
      @cockenballtorture 3 роки тому +52

      @@Docdoozer lol pingis

    • @Kira-tu3xp
      @Kira-tu3xp 3 роки тому +9

      Reminds me of how my health teacher kept trying to get the class to say STI instead of STD…needless to say it was to no avail

  • @scien7455
    @scien7455 3 роки тому +2240

    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."

    • @guywithbigbrain9332
      @guywithbigbrain9332 3 роки тому +45

      We don't say Colgate here cause there are many toothpaste in my country.

    • @Vi-304
      @Vi-304 3 роки тому +195

      @@guywithbigbrain9332 there are also many toothpaste brand in the Philippines, it's just that colgate is the most popular one

    • @arshbuilds
      @arshbuilds 3 роки тому +90

      Same, in India , toothpaste usually means Colgate

    • @Dabazuka
      @Dabazuka 3 роки тому +15

      @@arshbuilds nah

    • @pythondrink
      @pythondrink 3 роки тому +10

      😂😂😂😂y'all here weird

  • @vxxnsan
    @vxxnsan 3 роки тому +1467

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

    • @TheTexas1994
      @TheTexas1994 3 роки тому +59

      Correct Use: "I used the Google search engine to find the HAI video"

    • @AaronShenghao
      @AaronShenghao 3 роки тому +25

      I binged it... I mean Bing'ed it... (Yeah it doesn't work)

    • @vaishnavinrao7231
      @vaishnavinrao7231 3 роки тому +9

      @Spatza damn this doesnt even relate to the topic. 🙂

    • @ECEAaronXavierLobo
      @ECEAaronXavierLobo 3 роки тому +3

      @Spatza what are you going on about?

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 роки тому +6

      @Spatza anything anywhere? And spam and untruths? Definite spam report

  • @zacharypegg7051
    @zacharypegg7051 3 роки тому +158

    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.

    • @BenTheSkipper
      @BenTheSkipper 3 роки тому +1

      I was also thinking about the same thing 😂

    • @torgranael
      @torgranael 2 роки тому +13

      Took me over a decade to even know that Tupperware is an official trademark. Still don't know what to call off brand Funko Pops / Pop Vinyls.

    • @dustinbrueggemann1875
      @dustinbrueggemann1875 2 роки тому +11

      @@torgranael The true generic is just "figurines" or probably "chibi figurines" for funko pop knock-offs specifically.

    • @JWSmythe
      @JWSmythe 2 роки тому +11

      Most people wouldn't even know what a "hook-and-loop fastener" is, but almost everyone knows what Velcro is.

    • @JWSmythe
      @JWSmythe 2 роки тому +2

      Hahahah!
      ua-cam.com/video/rRi8LptvFZY/v-deo.html
      And the feedback response.
      ua-cam.com/video/ZLWMQLMiTPk/v-deo.html
      I probably wouldn't have found it without your comment. Thanks. :)

  • @Pcat0
    @Pcat0 3 роки тому +245

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

    • @qwaqwa1960
      @qwaqwa1960 3 роки тому +13

      LOL. Such yummy Cool-Aid®.

    • @crystalwolcott4744
      @crystalwolcott4744 3 роки тому +22

      So cringe. Apparently they pay peoplle to use bing too lol.

    • @redactedz6146
      @redactedz6146 3 роки тому +5

      Gotta make ends meet somehow I suppose haha. Hopefully that person **googled up better internship/job opportunities

    • @Maxygamez
      @Maxygamez 3 роки тому +4

      @Vinnie G the only time I’ve used bing was to search for google and I was in elementary school

    • @lotsodhliwayo
      @lotsodhliwayo 3 роки тому +3

      @@Maxygamez do you mean you don’t like bing? Or do you mean it’s bad?
      Because I find it better compared to Google.

  • @abdim1500
    @abdim1500 3 роки тому +1160

    "Superglue"
    - Shows a woman washing her hair😂😂😭. I see what you did there😉
    3:40

    • @Ok-lu8gx
      @Ok-lu8gx 3 роки тому +16

      *3:41

    • @hevi0
      @hevi0 3 роки тому +18

      I don't get it

    • @MagikarpMan
      @MagikarpMan 3 роки тому +134

      @@hevi0 search gorilla glue girl
      Long story short a woman used gorilla glue in her hair and it got completely stuck and she went viral

    • @illustration3406
      @illustration3406 3 роки тому +9

      @@hevi0 Somebody dropped super glue on her hair, and now she has to wash it

    • @mordor423
      @mordor423 3 роки тому +2

      that got2b glued lady lmaoooooo this video is hilarious

  • @joeking3181
    @joeking3181 3 роки тому +932

    “Superglue”
    *Shows gif of person washing hair*
    I see what you did there

    • @redyau_
      @redyau_ 3 роки тому +82

      That is not a gif, that is a stock video! :P
      "Gif"s are rarely actually .gif files, nowadays. Although it could be said that "gif" has become generalized for "short looping video" as Google has for searching.

    • @royalblanket
      @royalblanket 3 роки тому +33

      @@redyau_ How fitting

    • @redyau_
      @redyau_ 3 роки тому +16

      @@Zmoney126 That's humbling, thank you.

    • @Trash_Banditz
      @Trash_Banditz 3 роки тому +5

      @@Zmoney126 just stop being salty that someone is smarter than you, by the way... This aint Reddit

    • @brianisme6498
      @brianisme6498 3 роки тому +8

      @@Zmoney126 go back to Reddit. What he said was actually cool. r/ doesn’t even work on UA-cam. It’s a hyperlink to a sub-Reddit which only works on Reddit.

  • @Zeder95
    @Zeder95 2 роки тому +18

    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.

  • @evanhce135
    @evanhce135 3 роки тому +1894

    As long as the verb “Bing” doesn’t get genericized, I’m good

    • @adam79634
      @adam79634 3 роки тому +105

      Let me bing that idea

    • @odinfromcentr2
      @odinfromcentr2 3 роки тому +23

      @@adam79634 Kinky. 😛

    • @dima97
      @dima97 3 роки тому +27

      I binged it and it wasn't

    • @yankochoynev652
      @yankochoynev652 3 роки тому +38

      As a great man once said: "bing bing bong"

    • @mammutMK2
      @mammutMK2 3 роки тому +14

      I only use bing to lead me to google, because it is set as my standard search engine, thanks IT

  • @gridlockjoe
    @gridlockjoe 3 роки тому +587

    Aspirin and heroin are special cases: their trademark was stripped in the US as a result of Bayer being on the spiky-helmet side of World War I. Aspirin™ is still a trademark in Canada, for example.

    • @apttewly
      @apttewly 3 роки тому +23

      Those helmets were nice though

    • @momochief8845
      @momochief8845 3 роки тому +2

      @@apttewly Mustache man was nice though

    • @apttewly
      @apttewly 3 роки тому +13

      @@momochief8845 Mustache man wasn't doing anything in WW1

    • @WitherLele
      @WitherLele 3 роки тому +11

      @@apttewly he was in the army

    • @apttewly
      @apttewly 3 роки тому +16

      @@WitherLele He wasn't doing anything *important*

  • @jasoncollins5949
    @jasoncollins5949 3 роки тому +884

    "I worry about google taking my data, so I use a vpn to make sure my data gets to google securely"

    • @anonymous______1804
      @anonymous______1804 3 роки тому +45

      If you worry about your data use Tor browser, not vpn because VPNs are still owned by companies that can, and probably will sell your data.

    • @jasoncollins5949
      @jasoncollins5949 3 роки тому +34

      @@anonymous______1804 definitely. Unless you only distrust your isp, VPNs don’t help much. That said, even through tor, I wouldn’t be confident that google can’t work out who you are.

    • @anonymous______1804
      @anonymous______1804 3 роки тому +11

      ​@@jasoncollins5949 Well you would have to use some Linux (or something similar) so Microsoft would not get your data, and you'll could not sign to your accounts to remain in anonymity. But in this case you would be anonymous. yes, it would still theoretically be possible to track you, but I don't think it is practically doable.

    • @jasoncollins5949
      @jasoncollins5949 3 роки тому +10

      @@anonymous______1804 as you say, it probably isn’t practical however, Google probably could if they really wanted to, and given that so many sites use google statistics, even if you avoid all google products, they can track you even if it’s just for that session (which I guess is fine as they don’t know it’s you). If you use almost any other accounts, google can trace you which severely limits the usability of the internet.

    • @thatonepersonwhoeatscheese7348
      @thatonepersonwhoeatscheese7348 3 роки тому +5

      @@anonymous______1804 tor doesnt do anything to protect your data, it protects your anonymity

  • @rodrigolaleyenda4163
    @rodrigolaleyenda4163 3 роки тому +199

    To be fair when someone says google it, that quite literally means google it

    • @LittleKittenOWO
      @LittleKittenOWO 3 роки тому

      Yes but "googling" or "googled" is the problem

    • @rodrigolaleyenda4163
      @rodrigolaleyenda4163 3 роки тому +31

      @@LittleKittenOWO those are just other conjugations of the infinitive “to google”
      I will google it, I googled it, I am googling it all convey the same thing just in different tenses.
      If googling and googled are problems, using google itself as a verb would in theory be a problem as well.

    • @trashtrash2169
      @trashtrash2169 2 роки тому +1

      I guess maybe it's the assumption that google was used?

    • @torgranael
      @torgranael 2 роки тому +4

      That's because literally no-one uses Bing. I've heard of numerous browsers but as far as I know, most other search engines have died out.

    • @CoatApple
      @CoatApple 2 роки тому

      @@torgranael I personally use safari

  • @raghavnanda6312
    @raghavnanda6312 3 роки тому +430

    Velcro has the exact same problem! They made a whole music video asking people to call them hook and loop fasteners instead :P

    • @intestellars
      @intestellars 3 роки тому +52

      hook and loop fasteners...

    • @IABITVpresents
      @IABITVpresents 3 роки тому +28

      But that's not catchy!

    • @JohnUnsub
      @JohnUnsub 3 роки тому +12

      Clingy carpet cat tongue strips

    • @arxsaur
      @arxsaur 3 роки тому

      the RIIIIIIPs

    • @GimOA
      @GimOA 3 роки тому +1

      The sticky sandpaper™

  • @mathiasmaes
    @mathiasmaes 3 роки тому +637

    In Belgium we have a brand for diapers called "Pampers" but we use the word for all sort of diapers even if they are not from that brand.

  • @rafipuff
    @rafipuff 3 роки тому +292

    i specifically googled this video on youtube

    • @MrMultiMediat0r
      @MrMultiMediat0r 3 роки тому +9

      Google owns UA-cam, which uses basically the same code for its search engine as Google, so they might be okay with that one

    • @Xedrie
      @Xedrie 3 роки тому

      Ok

    • @PopYTP
      @PopYTP 3 роки тому

      Hello Sawcon man

    • @amadeosendiulo2137
      @amadeosendiulo2137 2 роки тому +1

      Glad you didn't bing it 😬

    • @BackSeatJunkie
      @BackSeatJunkie 2 роки тому

      I googled it on Bing.

  • @chlochlo742
    @chlochlo742 2 роки тому +6

    Another one that I don't think many people know about outside music production is "Autotune" as a trademark. You hear so many people talking about "Autotuning" and it's exactly like the Google situation. Except many producers don't actually use Autotune, instead opting for an alternative.

  • @LetsBiiny
    @LetsBiiny 3 роки тому +602

    The chapstick one is interesting because in Germany, we call them labello which is also a brand / product name

    • @teratino
      @teratino 3 роки тому +30

      yeah pretty much whole europe calls them labello , i gues that was the most famous brand here when they started popping up

    • @raulvillarmartinez
      @raulvillarmartinez 3 роки тому +7

      @@teratino well, in Spain we might be just weird but we usually call it "Vaselina" (vaseline) regardless of it being a stick or non-stick product, while sometimes saying things like "cacao labial" (literally lips cocoa) to refer to the stick form-factor vaseline, or "bálsamo labial" (lip balm, again, regardless of it being stick or non-stick) for a lip product that is similar to vaseline but actually isn't... I guess we are less practical, we care a lot about VaselineTM, or Labello just didn't make it way here 😅

    • @apotato6278
      @apotato6278 3 роки тому +2

      @@teratino Lypsyl in Swedish.

    • @moviez159
      @moviez159 3 роки тому +6

      I always buy labello but me and everyone I know just call it "huulirasva", which just means lip balm in finnish. So no company name for chapstick in finnish 😁

    • @americanjoghurt8060
      @americanjoghurt8060 3 роки тому +5

      Same with Kleenex or tempo

  • @roseexe
    @roseexe 3 роки тому +243

    After this video, Google doesn’t even sound like a real word anymore

    • @dragonofepics7324
      @dragonofepics7324 3 роки тому +1

      Off topic but nice pfp.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 роки тому +11

      Well, actually, it hasn't been a real word to begin with.

    • @pedronunes3063
      @pedronunes3063 3 роки тому +4

      Google: I see this as an absolute win

    • @kribbledibble3291
      @kribbledibble3291 3 роки тому +3

      You fool, you’re playing right into their hands!

    • @9nikola
      @9nikola 3 роки тому

      @@lonestarr1490 You can say that about literally any word.

  • @KleioChronicles
    @KleioChronicles 2 роки тому +6

    In the UK we use “hoovered”, “hoovering”, and “hoover” for a vacuum cleaner even if it isn’t the Hoover brand. However, there is an understanding that Hoover is also a brand.

  • @pythonjava6228
    @pythonjava6228 3 роки тому +263

    Genericide is basically how every Kenyan talks. We use specific brand names to refer to pretty much every similar product. For example, "Cutex" refers to every nail polish to the point that I only recently learned that it was a brand name

    • @yusurkassem4174
      @yusurkassem4174 3 роки тому +10

      Omg i had no idea cutex was a brand name! I've heard people use that word before i just assumed it was another word

    • @mlokole254
      @mlokole254 3 роки тому +1

      🤯

    • @ahokay2668
      @ahokay2668 3 роки тому

      Wait cutex is a brand???

    • @tzarina-alexandra9211
      @tzarina-alexandra9211 3 роки тому +8

      I think this happens in any country where the first time they saw said object it was imported from America or elsewhere. For example, where I'm from, Adidas is basically synonymous with sports shoe.

    • @chadwasntperished2750
      @chadwasntperished2750 3 роки тому +2

      same. we call tissues fine or kleenex, chapstick is rougue etc

  • @qpol
    @qpol 3 роки тому +2944

    “chapstick, a trademark owned by pfizer”
    WHAT

    • @smortboi1320
      @smortboi1320 3 роки тому +637

      The only reason 90% of people know what Pfizer is is due to the pandemic

    • @smt4090
      @smt4090 3 роки тому +50

      @@smortboi1320 With mixed results

    • @justuraveragecunt9005
      @justuraveragecunt9005 3 роки тому +21

      What's chapstick?

    • @qpol
      @qpol 3 роки тому +123

      @@justuraveragecunt9005 lip balm brand

    • @justuraveragecunt9005
      @justuraveragecunt9005 3 роки тому +13

      @@qpol O ok thx

  • @Rinkiyakepaapa
    @Rinkiyakepaapa 3 роки тому +881

    "Using Google as a verb is a tradition as old as Google’s tradition of avoiding taxes" - Half as Interesting

  • @doublevizzion
    @doublevizzion 3 роки тому +5

    been watching this channel for years now, i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, this is the only channel that says sponsors so smoothly that i can’t skip them

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement 3 роки тому +426

    Looks like Google gave up, considering how much this video is being suggested all of a sudden!

    • @haneul4164
      @haneul4164 3 роки тому +13

      This is not how it works

    • @shadowthedgehog1000
      @shadowthedgehog1000 3 роки тому +2

      @@haneul4164 yes it does

    • @Sol-from-the-solar-system
      @Sol-from-the-solar-system 3 роки тому +1

      If there options for google to Recommend then it would do it.

    • @chilldogs1881
      @chilldogs1881 3 роки тому

      google telling people not to use the word "googled" by suggesting it as videos to people who use it.

    • @TheAdvertisement
      @TheAdvertisement 2 роки тому

      @@haneul4164 Google controls UA-cam sooo

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 3 роки тому +304

    The fact that they're making a big fuss just makes me want to do it more.

    • @redactedz6146
      @redactedz6146 3 роки тому +19

      It'll be fun to google the date for when its trademark is rendered gone. That is if we get to see it actually happen during our time here

    • @gnualmafuerte
      @gnualmafuerte 3 роки тому +17

      They are not making a big fuss about it, they are doing the minimum that is legally required of them. I have trademarks in various countries, and in all of them you're legally required to "protect" your trademark by a) using it b) opposing trademark registrations that might collide with yours and c) preventing others from improperly using your trademark. Again, this are things that you *need* to do if you want to keep that trademark. Most companies won't register their own trademark, but rather hire a firm to do it for them, and that firm will include a, b and c in their services. That's just how the stupid system works.
      When I registered each of those trademarks we also got a lot of oppositions or complains, basically other firms (or even the same) that had registered trademarks even remotely similar to yours in the same or other markets saying "Not so fast, that is my trademark! Go away!". Imagine I registered Half as Interesting in the "youtube channel" category, somebody that registered "Half as caffeinated!" as a brand of instant decaffeinated coffee and somebody that registered "very interesting" as a brand of children books, BOTH are essentially legally required to complain and oppose the registration of my brand. If they don't ever complain about anyone, then if they ever need to actually defend their trademark against actual abuse, the fact that they never enforced their trademark could mean they'll lose the lawsuit and the trademark.
      So, it's not really a big fuss. They aren't really suing anyone, they are not gonna follow through or do anything about it, they don't really care that you say "google it" (on the contrary, they love it), but they are *legally* required to say something every time somebody uses their trademark in an "improper" way, otherwise if later Microsoft *actually* infringes on their trademark and starts calling their search engine "Google" too, Microsoft could argue that Google allowed their brand to become a generic term, and didn't defend it, therefore they can use it however they want, since it's just a word.
      The law is stupid, that's not Google's fault.

  • @balab1236
    @balab1236 3 роки тому +153

    I hope genericide happens to Photoshop, it's already like halfway there

    • @gnash.r
      @gnash.r 3 роки тому +8

      OhhhHHHHHHhhoooHhhHHH, we're living on a prayer!

    • @BackSeatJunkie
      @BackSeatJunkie 2 роки тому +5

      I'm older than Adobe and I never knew that "photoshop" was a brand name of a product/service......I always knew it as the name for using computer-based trickery to screw with images.

    • @balab1236
      @balab1236 2 роки тому +3

      @@BackSeatJunkie that's exactly what we want to happen, thank you for doing your part

  • @hjagu1323
    @hjagu1323 8 місяців тому +2

    Small correction for 4:30
    I it was the Swedish academy that tried to put ogooglingsbar in their dictionary (isof doesn't do dictionarys) but it's no longer present there. ISOF are just the ones that actually wrote about the Swedish academys failure to but that word in their dictionary.

  • @averycomer9229
    @averycomer9229 3 роки тому +788

    “‘Taco Bell’s baked chicken Chalupa’ - as that clearly references a specific type of trash” lmaoooo

    • @ungratefulmango
      @ungratefulmango 3 роки тому +17

      laughing my ass off off off off

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 роки тому

      I have a big... BIG... BIIIIGGGGG... muscles!!! HAHAHA!!! What did you think I was going for? That's so DIRTY of you! GAGAGAGA!!! I am the funniest UA-camr ever! Maybe that's the reason why I have TWO (!!!) HOT (!) GIRLFRIENDS. Thanks for being alive, dear qvery

    • @notjarrod8287
      @notjarrod8287 3 роки тому +6

      Obviously he hasn’t had Taco Bell at 3am while completely trashed himself

    • @elijah6496
      @elijah6496 3 роки тому +16

      @@AxxLAfriku im not even gonna ask

    • @JamesBond-xx1lv
      @JamesBond-xx1lv 3 роки тому +13

      @@AxxLAfriku you good bro?

  • @MichaelGriffin_
    @MichaelGriffin_ 3 роки тому +787

    I now want to use google as a verb way more just so they lose their trademark.

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 роки тому +35

      Same

    • @DogsRNice
      @DogsRNice 3 роки тому +65

      Chaotic good

    • @waynesouthwell
      @waynesouthwell 3 роки тому +11

      Cause just imagine saying bing or yahoo as a verb in 2021 lmao

    • @ungratefulmango
      @ungratefulmango 3 роки тому +12

      @@waynesouthwell One is onomatopoeia and the other is an interjection. I couldn't possibly use them as a verb all of a sudden.

    • @buttersquids
      @buttersquids 3 роки тому +39

      @Normal cat But what would 'to Nestlé' mean? Perhaps 'to perform severely immoral actions'?

  • @PixelHead777
    @PixelHead777 3 роки тому +315

    Neat! I'll make sure to keep this in mind when googling "easiest way to say 'fuck you' to giant corporations"

  • @Jivvi
    @Jivvi 2 роки тому +12

    Fun fact: the first time "google" was used as a verb, the most popular search engine, by a long, long way, was Yahoo!. Google barely made the top 5.

  • @JJMcCullough
    @JJMcCullough 3 роки тому +927

    What would be the most recent example of a company losing formal, legal control of its brand name to genericide? Does it still actually happen or is it just a vague worry?

  • @jrocksburr2724
    @jrocksburr2724 3 роки тому +347

    The shade thrown at Taco Bell is real 😂

    • @crystalpiper949
      @crystalpiper949 3 роки тому +11

      I loved their naked chicken taco, but I get why people like to dump on Taco Bell.

    • @royalblanket
      @royalblanket 3 роки тому +14

      @@crystalpiper949 I usually dump on taco bell due to the taco bell

    • @silent8335
      @silent8335 3 роки тому

      daanng

    • @nosikuminyoi18
      @nosikuminyoi18 3 роки тому

      😂 , I just heard it

  • @BoWSkittlez
    @BoWSkittlez 3 роки тому +455

    1:32 lol at the FineBros trying to trademark the word “React” a few years back

    • @SyenPie
      @SyenPie 3 роки тому +37

      I remember that fiasco. Their prompt "apology" video was even more shameless. I guess they recovered nicely considering they still have 20m subscribers.

    • @rendezvousonmemorylane
      @rendezvousonmemorylane 3 роки тому +39

      @@SyenPie Dead subs tho. There new videos get no views.

    • @idanavni_
      @idanavni_ 3 роки тому +5

      @@rendezvousonmemorylane their

    • @rendezvousonmemorylane
      @rendezvousonmemorylane 3 роки тому +12

      @@idanavni_ That's a first. I don't I've ever been grammar nazied before. Wow.

    • @ultimategamer2669
      @ultimategamer2669 3 роки тому +6

      @@rendezvousonmemorylane Or studied basic english.

  • @reneeluijken2536
    @reneeluijken2536 3 роки тому +17

    If I talk to someone and they say “I googled that on yahoo” i’d be so confused

  • @imbadatgames568
    @imbadatgames568 3 роки тому +318

    this guy managed to mention a sponsor 3 times in a 6 minute video. I'm honestly impressed

    • @harrada1691
      @harrada1691 3 роки тому +24

      While keeping it interesting to watch

    • @JJJT-
      @JJJT- 3 роки тому +5

      But promoting/selling something mostly stupid with a false sense of security

    • @Eldor-117
      @Eldor-117 Рік тому

      Subliminal adverts

  • @genericaccount9222
    @genericaccount9222 3 роки тому +110

    He put stock footage of someone washing their hair when he said superglue at 3:41. Please tell me that's a reference to gorilla glue girl

  • @rahuln5676
    @rahuln5676 3 роки тому +182

    This means that if all of your subscribers start regularly using the term "I Half as Interestinged it." when they learn something from your videos, then you Mr. Sam, won't be able to Trade Mark "HAI" anymore.
    Guys, I see this as an absolute win.

    • @xXJ4FARGAMERXx
      @xXJ4FARGAMERXx 3 роки тому +4

      I read that as:
      I half as intere-stinge-d it

    • @minecrafting_il
      @minecrafting_il 3 роки тому +9

      no: it would make him lose the trademark only if we start using it for things we didn't learn from this channel. In the case of google, they will lose their trademark ONLY IF we start using it even if we don't search on google. If we search on google, the trademark is still theirs.

    • @desuordie4856
      @desuordie4856 3 роки тому +7

      @@minecrafting_il So what you're saying is we only need to use it for short 5-10 minute comedic educational videos. And you know I'm more partial to "HAI'ed it"

    • @User31129
      @User31129 3 роки тому +1

      Say Interestinged five times fast

    • @zmbdog
      @zmbdog 3 роки тому +3

      rolls off the tongue

  • @con-trollerl5751
    @con-trollerl5751 2 роки тому +2

    Makes me surprised that Nintendo didn't get screwed over with how many parents call their kids PlayStation, computer, or anything they saw games running on "a Nintendo"

  • @bigpharts
    @bigpharts 3 роки тому +221

    So basically the goal of "Becoming a verb" is both something to chase when developing a service (I.E. Zoom, Uber) and something companies really don't want to happen.

    • @Winasaurus
      @Winasaurus 3 роки тому +61

      You want to become A verb, not THE verb.
      Having people say "Just Uber it" is great for marketing since it's word of mouth without the effort. But if people are using Ryde and still say that, then you've got an issue.

    • @21stcenturyozman20
      @21stcenturyozman20 3 роки тому +28

      English has been verbing nouns and nouning verbs since time immemorial. Neither Google not anyone else can stop it, because - registered names aside - the people (i.e. everyone) own language. Using "google" as a verb cannot be legislated against; AFAIK no-one has ever registered a trade verb, only trade *names.*

    • @Winasaurus
      @Winasaurus 3 роки тому +7

      @@21stcenturyozman20 They can, and have, sent cease-and-desist orders to websites not defining their verbage correctly. To them, 'googling' is 'to use google specifically to search something', if you attempt to define it otherwise, you'll get the CnD.
      The people own the language, but the company own their name, and can legally protect it from misuse.

    • @kamladevi4500
      @kamladevi4500 3 роки тому +1

      Hey this comment has 69 likes lol

    • @oliver_siegel
      @oliver_siegel 3 роки тому +1

      @@Winasaurus i guess it would take a patented product that can't be easily copied... But at the same time if your brand name has become the verb for something your brand is probably worth billions, so why care?

  • @FharishAhmedPortfolio
    @FharishAhmedPortfolio 3 роки тому +465

    Just for this, we should all band together and make "Google" a generic term... given that they already steal our information either way.

    • @user-dl3vn8ze9n
      @user-dl3vn8ze9n 3 роки тому +4

      Bahaha

    • @FharishAhmedPortfolio
      @FharishAhmedPortfolio 3 роки тому +12

      @Bellezza Felutia I am sorry, I am not letting anybody read my PP!!! lol

    • @FrenchToasted1995
      @FrenchToasted1995 3 роки тому +2

      come together lads

    • @FharishAhmedPortfolio
      @FharishAhmedPortfolio 3 роки тому +3

      @Patrick Baptist You make an interesting point. You probably googled the subject extensively.
      This means, I have to google search the topic and learn about it.

  • @zukio6088
    @zukio6088 3 роки тому +255

    🤨I remember Google being proud of being a verb in one of their anniversary videos saying “we’ve become so big we’ve joined your daily vocabulary”, wth

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 роки тому +68

      That was before they noticed the trademark thing.
      When this happened, they went fully, 'Ooooooh, sssssshhhhh ...".

    • @zukio6088
      @zukio6088 3 роки тому +20

      @@lonestarr1490 yeah I’ll still use Google as a verb tho

    • @9nikola
      @9nikola 3 роки тому +12

      They should be proud that it's a commonly used word, but they should also be very careful about people using it only for when they're actually using Google.

    • @redyau_
      @redyau_ 3 роки тому +8

      @@lonestarr1490 It's especially bad for them because OTIS's and Pfizer's subrands got detrademarked, not the companies themselves. But Google is the name of the company itself, which is quite scary for Google. Doesn't seem like a great situation. All it takes to go wrong is one judge.

    • @crystalwolcott4744
      @crystalwolcott4744 3 роки тому +11

      They want both. They want to be a household name and they don't want to lose their trademark. That's why they only get upset when it's used to describe all search engines. If you're using to actually mean you are going to use Google then they want you to use it a lot! lol

  • @amandacarr6764
    @amandacarr6764 3 роки тому +7

    That Taco Bell joke was legendary!!

  • @Whose__
    @Whose__ 3 роки тому +177

    everybody gangsta till somebody internet explore's it

    • @iamanti8367
      @iamanti8367 3 роки тому +2

      default SE in IE is Bing.

  • @dragonrykr
    @dragonrykr 3 роки тому +95

    3:14 fun fact, in the ex-Yugoslav region, a common word amongst the people for a calculator is "digitron", even though officially it is "kalkulator". The reason being that one company from Istria called Digitron used to produce calculators for the entire country, so the name stuck and remained even to this day as an actual word.

    • @INNERLMNT
      @INNERLMNT 3 роки тому +8

      In Kosovo which was part of that ex-Yugo region, we use that word as the equivalent for a TV "remote" as well.

    • @eier5472
      @eier5472 3 роки тому +28

      Digitron sounds much cooler than calculator

    • @lordsiomai
      @lordsiomai 3 роки тому +11

      i wish we all just called calculators digitrons. it's much cooler and high tech sounding

    • @uniqueusernane8204
      @uniqueusernane8204 3 роки тому +3

      In Macedonia we call calculators "digitron" "дигитрон"

    • @davidbarrientos2062
      @davidbarrientos2062 3 роки тому +5

      In Chile the Higienic paper is "papel higiénico" but everyone call it "Comfort"
      Because of a company whit that name

  • @TheLegoPerson
    @TheLegoPerson 3 роки тому +278

    I'd argue that google isn't at risk of losing their trademark anyway, because every time we "google" something, we actually use their site. Nobody says they're going to "google" something and then uses bing. But then I'm not a lawyer so I could be wrong

    • @Jenny-tm3cm
      @Jenny-tm3cm 3 роки тому +66

      I agree with your point, but I ALWAYS say “lemme google that” and use bing when I’m on my computer lol. Depends on which browser I’m using

    • @maxherman5413
      @maxherman5413 3 роки тому +15

      Y'all using bing🤡

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому +53

      what about people who use DuckDuckGo or Ecosia? they still say they're going to 'google' it, not 'Ecosia' it.

    • @adithyastren6218
      @adithyastren6218 3 роки тому +18

      They are on shaky ground though. Google is so widely used but it is not universally used. When someone says "google it" and you use a search engine other than google, you are still following their instructions. Their meaning was "search for it on the internet" not "search for it using google".

    • @waynesouthwell
      @waynesouthwell 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah you just don't 'Hawaii 5-0 it' and 'Bing' or 'Yahoo' it... just search it soooo yeah

  • @Disconnected554
    @Disconnected554 2 роки тому +2

    The thing is, some languages can't make Google a verb.
    For example, in Portuguese we use Xerox with the same meaning of photocopy. "Tirar uma xerox" "Take a photocopy"
    But we can't verb Google. "Joga no Google" it's the most used I think. It literally means "Throw it at Google""

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco 3 роки тому +63

    In Brazil, Nestlé has a brand of cooking powdered chocolate called "Two Friars", that has a picture of two priests on the box. Everyone just calls it "chocolate do padre" (the priest chocolate). Once a company tried to register "chocolate do padre" as a brand but it got denied by the IP office because of that. Those things happen both ways.

    • @darochavitor
      @darochavitor 3 роки тому +1

      Sempre ouvi falarem “os Fradinhos”

    • @deleted5745
      @deleted5745 3 роки тому +1

      @@darochavitor cara respeita quem nao fala a sua lingua, ou escreve em ingles ou traduz em baixo
      Man respect people who can't speak your language, either write in english or translate it

  • @TheAutobotPower
    @TheAutobotPower 3 роки тому +84

    Hasbro has this issue with *Transformers* , they cannot say or write "transform", but convert. Ironically, their most famous catchphrase is "Transform and roll out"

    • @Punkandtokelife
      @Punkandtokelife 3 роки тому +11

      "Convert and roll out" sounds like the motto of a cult

  • @redfailhawk
    @redfailhawk 3 роки тому +426

    The worst part of all this is, that when I say I’m going to google something, I always use google. I never say I’m going to google the hours for Popeyes and then use Bing instead, because every other search engine sucks.

    • @GreyAcumen
      @GreyAcumen 3 роки тому +69

      Depends on what you're searching for, but yeah, pretty much. If I say I googled something, and wind up with Bing results, it just means Microsoft did their bullshit again and I have to fix it before I can go back to googling properly.

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique 3 роки тому +72

      Duckduckgo is what I use

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique 3 роки тому +9

      @@romanceinbusan1741 planting trees doesn't really do much tho. I try to not use anything that makes money from my information either.

    • @Xanthopathy
      @Xanthopathy 3 роки тому +10

      @@Gandhi_Physique good man

    • @emocrab7545
      @emocrab7545 3 роки тому +5

      But technically, if you say "Hey can you google 'how to make hot sexy French fries?'" In a way that's non specific to Google the search engine, it's still works

  • @michaelkelleypoetry
    @michaelkelleypoetry 2 роки тому +2

    The word "kleenex" is used in the same way as the word "Google". Most people say "pass me a kleenex" regardless of the actual brand. It's pretty common for the major brand on the market to pass into general vocabulary. It's never affected the trademarking of any other of the brands, though.

  • @Danielledaydreamer
    @Danielledaydreamer 3 роки тому +80

    I remember The Vampire Diaries also tried to make “I binged it” a thing. Let it go, Bing, not gonna happen.

    • @digitallocations1423
      @digitallocations1423 3 роки тому +7

      😂😂
      They tried it.
      The written word is just weird. People might think you binge ate some food.

  • @nemeczek67
    @nemeczek67 3 роки тому +32

    In Polish, adidas means any sport shoe, even if its made by Nike.

    • @ellasmella3970
      @ellasmella3970 3 роки тому +3

      bing rlly tried to make fetch happen

  • @dumbguy8741
    @dumbguy8741 3 роки тому +249

    In a nutshell, this why you can’t trademark the term “garbage,” as that commonly describes
    all trash, but you can trademark the term “Taco Bell’s Naked Chicken Chalupa” as that clearly references a specific type of trash made by a specific company. - Half as Interesting

    • @Magst3r1
      @Magst3r1 3 роки тому +13

      Yes we watched the video

    • @harmonious_choir
      @harmonious_choir 3 роки тому +21

      Ah yes quoting something word for word from the video we all watched, for likes. Nice job

    • @noideawhoiam3855
      @noideawhoiam3855 3 роки тому +3

      @@Magst3r1 read the second part. “that clearly references a specific type of trash made by a specific company”

    • @Raych666
      @Raych666 3 роки тому +10

      @@noideawhoiam3855 Yess...??? That was also said in the video.

    • @raisin4406
      @raisin4406 3 роки тому +6

      @@harmonious_choir or maybe it’s just a quote they liked and want to highlight and share just like any reason you’d quote someone...?

  • @bofuuu
    @bofuuu 3 роки тому +23

    Switched to Ecosia sometime in 2019, never looked back since.

  • @baksatibi
    @baksatibi 3 роки тому +130

    _HAIed something:_ talking about an obscure fact littering it with puns and bad jokes for about 5 minutes
    _Wendover Productioning:_ talking about transportation and logistics that usually involves airplanes in great detail

    • @whereisamine
      @whereisamine 3 роки тому +2

      Excellent ideas 💡

    • @GustavBrogren
      @GustavBrogren 3 роки тому +4

      Let me get that for you.
      “...that usually involves airplanes in great detail. Or bricks.”

    • @ashleyhamman
      @ashleyhamman 3 роки тому +1

      I think "Tom Scotted" competes with "HAIed" enough to avoid genericide if ever those laws came after such things.

  • @60secondfinance81
    @60secondfinance81 3 роки тому +130

    Next video on Wendover Productions:
    The logistics of weird trademarks

  • @jdatlas4668
    @jdatlas4668 3 роки тому +232

    Oh, is this a Video about trademarks? Color me intrigued.

    •  3 роки тому +32

      Nice profile picture, quite neat lookin

    • @6z0
      @6z0 3 роки тому +1

      eh

    • @JakeD567
      @JakeD567 3 роки тому +18

      @Spatza who asked?

    • @Daniel-pv7le
      @Daniel-pv7le 3 роки тому +8

      @ fun fact, the bi flag was once attempted to be trademarked

    • @daa589
      @daa589 3 роки тому +1

      Half as interested

  • @TakoBell-Real
    @TakoBell-Real 5 місяців тому +3

    0:19 man bro really has the balls to show post 9/11 💀💀💀😭😭😭

  • @MartinOlminkhof
    @MartinOlminkhof 3 роки тому +90

    I would love for Google to lose the trademark, the cost of having virtually no competition

  • @JB-hq8bv
    @JB-hq8bv 3 роки тому +67

    The passive jokes in this episode were GOLDEN

  • @AzureGreatheart
    @AzureGreatheart 3 роки тому +13

    Trying to sue people for using “Google” as a verb is just *asking* for the fate they’re so desperately trying to avoid.

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 3 роки тому +3

    Excellent observation. Majority of companies are never prepared for becoming the "generic" description of a product or service. What could Google expect? I "searched it"? NOOOO! I Googled. I Bing'd! I I Yahoo'd!

  • @DarkMephiles
    @DarkMephiles 3 роки тому +25

    That's also why Toho gets really pissed if you say "-Zilla" too much. They want "-Zilla" to be about "Godzilla" not "Any big scary thing that stomps on cities."

  • @TheSam1902
    @TheSam1902 3 роки тому +18

    "You don't trust me? Bing it!" sounds like an insult, considering how short "bing" is to say, like "You don't trust me? Stuff it!"

  • @anonymousperson26223
    @anonymousperson26223 3 роки тому +64

    Lmao at 3:41 he put a video of someone using shampoo as 'superglue' that is gold

  • @Minurz
    @Minurz 3 роки тому +1

    Haven't watched the video but I bet it's because if Google becomes a word commonly referred to when using the internet then the word becomes public use and Google won't have ownership over the name anymore

  • @isarali5634
    @isarali5634 3 роки тому +24

    2:02 that's the highest level of sarcasm I know till now

  • @hypocrisyhunter8919
    @hypocrisyhunter8919 3 роки тому +42

    Around here "Coke" is often a generic term for any carbonated soft drink as in:
    "What kind of coke you want? Dr. Pepper? Sprite? Mt. Dew?"

    • @Winasaurus
      @Winasaurus 3 роки тому +14

      Can I get a coke? What kind? Coke.

    • @GeneralRane
      @GeneralRane 3 роки тому +8

      That would throw me off so far; if it's not Coca-Cola it's not "Coke." Unless you're talking cocaine.

    • @Icysnowman256
      @Icysnowman256 3 роки тому +1

      Same here! There’s a few exceptions, like Root Beer and Red Bull, but many things such as Fanta, Sprite, or almost anything else fizzy is just called Coke

    • @molotera8789
      @molotera8789 3 роки тому +2

      @Vinnie G in my case, Mexico

    • @molotera8789
      @molotera8789 3 роки тому

      @Vinnie G like how some people call paintings Picassos even tho they werent painted by him or resemble any of his movements

  • @bombernova221
    @bombernova221 3 роки тому +20

    This is the most subtle roast video ever. I love this video so much.

  • @erezofer8267
    @erezofer8267 10 місяців тому

    Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

  • @Kevelinu
    @Kevelinu 3 роки тому +50

    Well, pretty much what is currently happening in Germany, Lego is sueing all kinds of people among them famous UA-camr covering "lego type" toys, because they call everything "Lego" pretty much.

    • @SupersuMC
      @SupersuMC 3 роки тому +1

      Hail Denmark!

    • @Catcrumbs
      @Catcrumbs 3 роки тому +2

      If Lego is suing people for misusing their trademark (as Lego should), then they are protecting their trademark from this happening to it.

  • @balfronsocialclub4290
    @balfronsocialclub4290 3 роки тому +69

    I often say google something, when I really mean Duck Duck Go :)

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames 3 роки тому +4

      Google: We take your information
      DuckDuckGo: Google but we dont take your information
      DuckDuckGo is owned by google

    • @kyh148
      @kyh148 3 роки тому

      Don’t do that
      Fuck Google

    • @fastertrackcreative
      @fastertrackcreative 3 роки тому +10

      That's the trouble. DuckDuckGo is a mouthful and doesn't really have a short form "duck it" could be easily misheard.

    • @m3rcurialis
      @m3rcurialis 3 роки тому

      @@DoggosGames DuckDuckGo is not owned by Google.

    • @gracepearson5905
      @gracepearson5905 3 роки тому

      Same but with Ecosia

  • @David.Marquez
    @David.Marquez 3 роки тому +21

    The sponsor placement was so on point, I lost it.

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen 2 роки тому +1

    Googling sounds natural. Binging is already a word that means watching a show in a short amount of time.

  • @Koblac
    @Koblac 3 роки тому +37

    If I took a shot every time he said "Google", I'd be dead half way through the video.

  • @yellomonky4272
    @yellomonky4272 3 роки тому +20

    I swear that your sponser rolls are so smooth like wtf

  • @JakeD567
    @JakeD567 3 роки тому +25

    That Superglue reference was a good one

    • @nevilis1
      @nevilis1 3 роки тому +1

      Can u explain it?

    • @ke6gwf
      @ke6gwf 3 роки тому +1

      @@nevilis1 Google "gorilla glue girl" lol

  • @zclor9055
    @zclor9055 2 роки тому

    that express vpn ad was smooth
    mad respect for making the sponsor at the start of the video 4 seconds long and make the sponsor get moved to the end of the video

  • @Sultan_Alfie1914
    @Sultan_Alfie1914 3 роки тому +9

    Me when the video try’s to segway into a ad: imma head out

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 3 роки тому +65

    "Motor stairs" needs to come back into common use right gorram now.

    • @ke6gwf
      @ke6gwf 3 роки тому +3

      Shiny

    • @Deadlyish
      @Deadlyish 3 роки тому +3

      It sounds like a quirky steampunk version of an escalator and I'm all for it

    • @295g295
      @295g295 3 роки тому +1

      > 2:36 < escalator

    • @UnDeaDCyBorg
      @UnDeaDCyBorg 3 роки тому +1

      The word for em in my language translates to "roll(ing) stairs", so why not?

  • @efaniojens6277
    @efaniojens6277 3 роки тому +25

    My favourite social media site is the Wikipedia page 'The list of Generic and Genericized Trademarks' and I know that those are all still legally enforceable trademarks owned by specific companies

  • @valsagar4917
    @valsagar4917 3 роки тому +1

    "You can't trademark a common word"
    Sky plc: *nervous sweating*