Here's a fun thought experiment -- which current big tech company do you think will eventually, a hundred years from now, lose control of their trademark and have it genericized
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It's this kind of perverse argument based on Google's tremendous market dominance -- it's not a "generic term" because Google is so dominant in the marketplace and in people's minds that if you call using Bing "googling" people will actually say "No it's not" ("Bing?! lol")
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If "googling" genuinely becomes generic it'll probably because of Baidu -- like the only place where there seriously is a competitor to Google brand-wise is Baidu in China, and it's possible Chinese sources will start translating "looking things up on Baidu" as "googling"
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I feel like they're right about that, and the same applies to "tweet" and "Netflix". Not so for Photoshop
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