{"id":4837,"date":"2014-02-23T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:38:45","slug":"prohibit-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"Prohibit google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest evidence of the steady progress that the word <em>google <\/em>is making into language is the fact that it has now been included in the Merriam-Webster, as a verb, with a lower case &lt;g&gt;. A student has pointed out to me that the Google company itself is not particularly happy with this development. The company is afraid that <em>google <\/em>may simply become another word for &#8216;search&#8217; and lose its connection with the company (with the consequent loss of protection of the word as a trademark). But this is what is happening. And nobody, not even Google, can control language change.\u00a0As a consequence, the leading dictionaries have started including the verb. The OED has included <em>Google <\/em>as a verb but, unlike Merriam-Webster, maintained the capitalisation. Australia&#8217;s Macquarie Dictionary has it both as a transitive and intransitive verb and as a noun (as in &#8220;I am going to have a google&#8221;). \u00a0Google are not the first company to worry. In the past, when\u00a0<em>xerox <\/em>or <em>hoover <\/em>underwent the same development, the companies which thought the word belonged to them reacted like Google today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest evidence of the steady progress that the word google is making into language is the fact that it has now been included in the Merriam-Webster, as a verb, with a lower case &lt;g&gt;. A student has pointed out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4837\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[647,28,372],"tags":[1789,1791,1793,1790,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}