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Google "radical flank effect"
Edit: to clarify this is in support of ops comment. What they're talking about is called the radical flank effect.
For those of us that are lazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_flank_effect "The radical flank effect refers to the positive or negative effects that radical activists for a cause have on more moderate activists for the same cause." "Greater differentiation between moderates and radicals in the presence of a weak government.[2][13][14]: 411 As Charles Dobson puts it: "To secure their place, the new moderates have to denounce the actions of their extremist counterparts as irresponsible, immoral, and counterproductive. The most astute will quietly encourage 'responsible extremism' at the same time." "
Hey, that’s me!
Holy hell
Like a drive by, but en passant
Or just use any other better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good; quit pushing garbage.
Going to take me a lonnnng time to retrain my brain to not use "google" as a verb. I need to swap to the generic "search" or something
Edit: I didn't realize, but am not at all surprised, that "google" is officially a verb in the Merriam Webster dictionary
Or we make Google the generic term for searching something online and they lose the trademark.
I hope you're this pedantic when people ask for a Kleenex or a q-tip, or when they use Velcro
They might be, depending on their region.
I only know what a q-tip is because I've seen americans say it online.
And while Kleenex is a brand over here, you'd get a slightly funny look if you asked for 'a kleenex' rather than 'a tissue'.
Velcro is definitely used here though, and so is googling, but variants of 'look it up' are more commonly used because it's more generic.
It's not "Velcro" you're using. That's a company. You can't use a company to hold stuff in place. You can use Velcro-brand hook- and loop-fastener.
Don't Call it Velcro
What else can you call a qtip?
Cotton bud, cotton swab, ear bud
Ask yourself what is a Q Tip?
This is a lie. Google used to be borderline psychic.
Right? Google has been shit for at least 5 years, but let's not pretend it wasn't the best search engine by far for years.
fr. in the early days of the web, like pre 2005, it was a revelation
In the Yahoo era, Google was merely better than its many competitors with equally stupid names. Circa 2015, when all those competitors were stone dead, you could type 'who was that guy in that movie' and it would correctly tell you it's Russell Crowe.
Kinda crazy that in a space where we are concerned about a armed and masked gunman murders a woman in cold blood, as we wonder how to best cope and move forward - people will still argue about search engine choices.
I use google as a generic verb to search for something on the internet