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
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.”
@@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...
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
@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
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™
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.
@@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.
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.
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"
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.
@@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
@@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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😭
@@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 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.
@@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)
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.
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. :)
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
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."
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.
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.
@@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.
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'.
@@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 😅
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 😁
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
@@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.
I remember that fiasco. Their prompt "apology" video was even more shameless. I guess they recovered nicely considering they still have 20m subscribers.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
@@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"
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.
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.
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.*
@@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.
@@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?
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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 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
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.
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.
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!
@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.
Hasbro has this issue with *Transformers* , they cannot say or write "transform", but convert. Ironically, their most famous catchphrase is "Transform and roll out"
_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
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
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""
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
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".
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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."
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
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"
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.
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
Consider binging your research instead!
Thanks for the great content an perfect mix of humour and information!
I'm your mom
Still uses a Google doc
Can we have a video on bricks that is fair and balanced and not the hateful propaganda in the concrete video you made?
If Google doesn't want me to do it, then I'm definitely going to do it.
Indeed. Also that ship has sailed. If Google suddenly vanished I think people would still say googled it!
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.
Google: dont give me your money pls
Us: Send money go brr
i dont believe you, i just googled it
@i l w?
_"yeah, i just [redacted] something"_
you googled something something
@@badgerous8320
Oh no, you absolute madlad... cease and desist coming your way
New video idea, 'Why the Scp foundation doesn't want you to say you _'[Redacted] something'_
Found the scp reader
Shooble booped
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.”
Well, if they were using Gmail, that would be correct!
Well, my dad calls the whole internet "the E-mail"...
@@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...
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
@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
So if the same thing applies to DuckDuckGO, you would say:
"Don't believe me? Duck it!"
"Have you ever tried to Duck yourself?"
what are you, on Quack?!
"I duckduckwent that paper. You should duckduckgo something too."
@@nefelibatacomingthrough2707 rolls right off the tongue doesn't it? Ungenericizable.
You're ducking right ;-)
That's what YOU said
The same reason Adobe doesn't want you to say 'that photo was obviously photoshopped'
I think you mean 'that photo was obviously doctored using a nonspecific photo editing program on your computing device'
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@Alpha Sancho paint
@Alpha Sancho GIMP works, probably darktable too.
I googled on bing how to artists Photoshop pictures in GIMP.
That's proper annoying. People are saying videos are photshopped when they look fake
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".
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.
@@brickbot2.038 Lego bricks have become so universal that any brick with joints is now simply referred as "Lego".
They sent cease and desist letters to people in the 3d printing community who had *free* models with the name lego on it...
Oh andere deutsche hier hahaha
At least that youtuber wasn't Sam, in which case he'd pollute our ears by calling it Laygoze
Can we appreciate the shot of a girl shampooing her hair when he mentioned “superglue”
Just noticed that 😂
shred /dev/sda
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@@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.
@@valantisalatsas7249 Sometimes I think I'm part velociraptor: If it's not moving, I can't see it.
"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
That show has hilariously obvious advertisements
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.
I prefer Edging
@@Roberto577_One That’s a browser thiugh
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Not unless you are the Bing Boy. At least, that's what Nogla and the Vanoss Crew Said.
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"
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.
@@fermitupoupon1754 Somehow, I don't think the colloquialisms of Chinese society will matter that much in a US trademark lawsuit
@@fermitupoupon1754 I think chinese people don't say that they will google something they day they will baidu something.
@@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
@@forgottenfamily well they cared enough about Sweden’s misuse of the term according to the video so why not China?
"photoshopped" is another example of this and people using the word as a generic term is making Adobe mad
yeah or they will lose rights
I feel no sympathy.
"Legos", and not only for Lego, but for generic building bricks too.
@@Jemppu I feel like Lego is too recognized to be forgotten. It will always be known as "The Lego"
@@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.
“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.
Agreed
What does "xerox" mean? I only know it as the company.
@@PacificEmperor folks use xerox as a term for "to scan and print" here in the Philippines at least
Kleenex
@@PacificEmperor It meant "photocopy."
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.
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.
Velcro, zipper...
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.
@@leang8441 good point, but I'd like to google something on bing
@@leang8441 I use ecosia and still say "googling", so
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.
Those helmets were nice though
@@apttewly Mustache man was nice though
@@momochief8845 Mustache man wasn't doing anything in WW1
@@apttewly he was in the army
@@WitherLele He wasn't doing anything *important*
this explains why Adobe really doesn't like the term "Photoshopped"
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 😭
@@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.
@@lightningmcqueen1717 also i am tired and forgot what video this was on, sorry for the recap.
@@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.
@@lightningmcqueen1717 firefox uses google
“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.
Wait ping pong is a brand? I always thought that was just the english-ized chinese name for table tennis
@@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)
Meanwhile in Sweden, or at least where I live in Sweden, we call it "Pingis" so like "ping" combined with "tennis" to form "pingis".
@@Docdoozer lol pingis
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
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.
I was also thinking about the same thing 😂
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.
@@torgranael The true generic is just "figurines" or probably "chibi figurines" for funko pop knock-offs specifically.
Most people wouldn't even know what a "hook-and-loop fastener" is, but almost everyone knows what Velcro is.
Hahahah!
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And the feedback response.
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I probably wouldn't have found it without your comment. Thanks. :)
This will come up when you Google "Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something""
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
@@DyslexicMitochondria ayyy I watch your channel. Love your vids bro
I’d hope so
lol
@@DyslexicMitochondria yesh once we talked about biscuits and facebook burst with ads of biscuits. Same with Google on clothes
Velcro has the exact same problem! They made a whole music video asking people to call them hook and loop fasteners instead :P
hook and loop fasteners...
But that's not catchy!
Clingy carpet cat tongue strips
the RIIIIIIPs
The sticky sandpaper™
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."
We don't say Colgate here cause there are many toothpaste in my country.
@@guywithbigbrain9332 there are also many toothpaste brand in the Philippines, it's just that colgate is the most popular one
Same, in India , toothpaste usually means Colgate
@@arshbuilds nah
😂😂😂😂y'all here weird
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.
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.
Google after reading your comment: 😔😕🙁😥😭😣
Just remember to say you googled something using bing since googling with google doesn't change google.
Their legal department doesn't want you to, their marketing department however very much does want you to do that
you googled something on bing? or did you bing something on google?
I google things on DuckDuckGo.
Fun fact I one toured a Microsoft campus and an employ unironically told me to "Bing internship opportunities" if I was interested.
LOL. Such yummy Cool-Aid®.
So cringe. Apparently they pay peoplle to use bing too lol.
Gotta make ends meet somehow I suppose haha. Hopefully that person **googled up better internship/job opportunities
@Vinnie G the only time I’ve used bing was to search for google and I was in elementary school
@@Maxygamez do you mean you don’t like bing? Or do you mean it’s bad?
Because I find it better compared to Google.
“Superglue”
*Shows gif of person washing hair*
I see what you did there
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.
@@redyau_ How fitting
@@Zmoney126 That's humbling, thank you.
@@Zmoney126 just stop being salty that someone is smarter than you, by the way... This aint Reddit
@@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.
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'.
The chapstick one is interesting because in Germany, we call them labello which is also a brand / product name
yeah pretty much whole europe calls them labello , i gues that was the most famous brand here when they started popping up
@@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 😅
@@teratino Lypsyl in Swedish.
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 😁
Same with Kleenex or tempo
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.
In Indonesia we also called every type of diapers "Pampers"
In kenya we call them pampers as well😀
Same in Brazil
Same in Egypt
So do my family in jamaica
I hope genericide happens to Photoshop, it's already like halfway there
OhhhHHHHHHhhoooHhhHHH, we're living on a prayer!
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.
@@BackSeatJunkie that's exactly what we want to happen, thank you for doing your part
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.
As long as the verb “Bing” doesn’t get genericized, I’m good
Let me bing that idea
@@adam79634 Kinky. 😛
I binged it and it wasn't
As a great man once said: "bing bing bong"
I only use bing to lead me to google, because it is set as my standard search engine, thanks IT
Friend: “How did you find the Google HAI video?”
Me: “I googled it.”
Correct Use: "I used the Google search engine to find the HAI video"
I binged it... I mean Bing'ed it... (Yeah it doesn't work)
@Spatza damn this doesnt even relate to the topic. 🙂
@Spatza what are you going on about?
@Spatza anything anywhere? And spam and untruths? Definite spam report
The fact that they're making a big fuss just makes me want to do it more.
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
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.
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
"Superglue"
- Shows a woman washing her hair😂😂😭. I see what you did there😉
3:40
*3:41
I don't get it
@@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
@@hevi0 Somebody dropped super glue on her hair, and now she has to wash it
that got2b glued lady lmaoooooo this video is hilarious
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
lol
Looks like Google gave up, considering how much this video is being suggested all of a sudden!
This is not how it works
@@haneul4164 yes it does
If there options for google to Recommend then it would do it.
google telling people not to use the word "googled" by suggesting it as videos to people who use it.
@@haneul4164 Google controls UA-cam sooo
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.
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
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
🤯
Wait cutex is a brand???
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.
same. we call tissues fine or kleenex, chapstick is rougue etc
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?
Oh wow its you!
Jell-O is a good example. Recent? Don’t know.
@@NoTraceOfSense Jell-O is still an enforceable trademark
Well hello there
Thermos?
i specifically googled this video on youtube
Google owns UA-cam, which uses basically the same code for its search engine as Google, so they might be okay with that one
Ok
Hello Sawcon man
Glad you didn't bing it 😬
I googled it on Bing.
To be fair when someone says google it, that quite literally means google it
Yes but "googling" or "googled" is the problem
@@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.
I guess maybe it's the assumption that google was used?
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.
@@torgranael I personally use safari
1:32 lol at the FineBros trying to trademark the word “React” a few years back
I remember that fiasco. Their prompt "apology" video was even more shameless. I guess they recovered nicely considering they still have 20m subscribers.
@@SyenPie Dead subs tho. There new videos get no views.
@@rendezvousonmemorylane their
@@idanavni_ That's a first. I don't I've ever been grammar nazied before. Wow.
@@rendezvousonmemorylane Or studied basic english.
After this video, Google doesn’t even sound like a real word anymore
Off topic but nice pfp.
Well, actually, it hasn't been a real word to begin with.
Google: I see this as an absolute win
You fool, you’re playing right into their hands!
@@lonestarr1490 You can say that about literally any word.
"I worry about google taking my data, so I use a vpn to make sure my data gets to google securely"
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@anonymous______1804 tor doesnt do anything to protect your data, it protects your anonymity
Switched to Ecosia sometime in 2019, never looked back since.
🤨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
That was before they noticed the trademark thing.
When this happened, they went fully, 'Ooooooh, sssssshhhhh ...".
@@lonestarr1490 yeah I’ll still use Google as a verb tho
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.
@@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.
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
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.
I read that as:
I half as intere-stinge-d it
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.
@@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"
Say Interestinged five times fast
rolls off the tongue
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.
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.
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.*
@@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.
Hey this comment has 69 likes lol
@@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?
That Taco Bell joke was legendary!!
“chapstick, a trademark owned by pfizer”
WHAT
The only reason 90% of people know what Pfizer is is due to the pandemic
@@smortboi1320 With mixed results
What's chapstick?
@@justuraveragecunt9005 lip balm brand
@@qpol O ok thx
“‘Taco Bell’s baked chicken Chalupa’ - as that clearly references a specific type of trash” lmaoooo
laughing my ass off off off off
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
Obviously he hasn’t had Taco Bell at 3am while completely trashed himself
@@AxxLAfriku im not even gonna ask
@@AxxLAfriku you good bro?
The shade thrown at Taco Bell is real 😂
I loved their naked chicken taco, but I get why people like to dump on Taco Bell.
@@crystalpiper949 I usually dump on taco bell due to the taco bell
daanng
😂 , I just heard it
That superglue joke with the shampoo was way too funny for a fraction-second clip
this guy managed to mention a sponsor 3 times in a 6 minute video. I'm honestly impressed
While keeping it interesting to watch
But promoting/selling something mostly stupid with a false sense of security
Subliminal adverts
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.
Sempre ouvi falarem “os Fradinhos”
@@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
"Using Google as a verb is a tradition as old as Google’s tradition of avoiding taxes" - Half as Interesting
Now that's funny
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.
I now want to use google as a verb way more just so they lose their trademark.
Same
Chaotic good
Cause just imagine saying bing or yahoo as a verb in 2021 lmao
@@waynesouthwell One is onomatopoeia and the other is an interjection. I couldn't possibly use them as a verb all of a sudden.
@Normal cat But what would 'to Nestlé' mean? Perhaps 'to perform severely immoral actions'?
everybody gangsta till somebody internet explore's it
default SE in IE is Bing.
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.
In Kosovo which was part of that ex-Yugo region, we use that word as the equivalent for a TV "remote" as well.
Digitron sounds much cooler than calculator
i wish we all just called calculators digitrons. it's much cooler and high tech sounding
In Macedonia we call calculators "digitron" "дигитрон"
In Chile the Higienic paper is "papel higiénico" but everyone call it "Comfort"
Because of a company whit that name
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!
Neat! I'll make sure to keep this in mind when googling "easiest way to say 'fuck you' to giant corporations"
brave is pretty good
Imma Google that as well
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The logistics of weird trademarks
Just for this, we should all band together and make "Google" a generic term... given that they already steal our information either way.
Bahaha
@Bellezza Felutia I am sorry, I am not letting anybody read my PP!!! lol
come together lads
@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.
That superglue shampoo blink-and-you-miss-it joke is my favorite of yours yet.
Hasbro has this issue with *Transformers* , they cannot say or write "transform", but convert. Ironically, their most famous catchphrase is "Transform and roll out"
"Convert and roll out" sounds like the motto of a cult
_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
Excellent ideas 💡
Let me get that for you.
“...that usually involves airplanes in great detail. Or bricks.”
I think "Tom Scotted" competes with "HAIed" enough to avoid genericide if ever those laws came after such things.
In Polish, adidas means any sport shoe, even if its made by Nike.
bing rlly tried to make fetch happen
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
Oh, is this a Video about trademarks? Color me intrigued.
Nice profile picture, quite neat lookin
eh
@Spatza who asked?
@ fun fact, the bi flag was once attempted to be trademarked
Half as interested
I remember The Vampire Diaries also tried to make “I binged it” a thing. Let it go, Bing, not gonna happen.
😂😂
They tried it.
The written word is just weird. People might think you binge ate some food.
"You can't trademark a common word"
Sky plc: *nervous sweating*
Lmao at 3:41 he put a video of someone using shampoo as 'superglue' that is gold
The passive jokes in this episode were GOLDEN
2:02 that's the highest level of sarcasm I know till now
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""
I swear that your sponser rolls are so smooth like wtf
Trying to sue people for using “Google” as a verb is just *asking* for the fate they’re so desperately trying to avoid.
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
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
Y'all using bing🤡
what about people who use DuckDuckGo or Ecosia? they still say they're going to 'google' it, not 'Ecosia' it.
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".
Yeah you just don't 'Hawaii 5-0 it' and 'Bing' or 'Yahoo' it... just search it soooo yeah
Nice transition into the sponsor, a self roast is always nice.
This is the most subtle roast video ever. I love this video so much.
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
Yes we watched the video
Ah yes quoting something word for word from the video we all watched, for likes. Nice job
@@Magst3r1 read the second part. “that clearly references a specific type of trash made by a specific company”
@@noideawhoiam3855 Yess...??? That was also said in the video.
@@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...?
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.
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.
Duckduckgo is what I use
@@romanceinbusan1741 planting trees doesn't really do much tho. I try to not use anything that makes money from my information either.
@@Gandhi_Physique good man
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
If I talk to someone and they say “I googled that on yahoo” i’d be so confused
That Superglue reference was a good one
Can u explain it?
@@nevilis1 Google "gorilla glue girl" lol
The transition into the ExpressVPN ad was brilliant
This was the most educational 6 minute ad read I've ever watched, fair play 👏
3:41
I love how you said "superglue" and put a woman washing her hair in the backgroud. It's just hillarious.
I would love for Google to lose the trademark, the cost of having virtually no competition
Risky like of the day
Great comment!
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.
Hail Denmark!
If Lego is suing people for misusing their trademark (as Lego should), then they are protecting their trademark from this happening to it.
The sponsor placement was so on point, I lost it.
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.
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."
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
Please don’t. I don’t care.
4:51 this one is well placed 😁
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"
"Motor stairs" needs to come back into common use right gorram now.
Shiny
It sounds like a quirky steampunk version of an escalator and I'm all for it
> 2:36 < escalator
The word for em in my language translates to "roll(ing) stairs", so why not?
"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!"
Me when the video try’s to segway into a ad: imma head out
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.