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Criminal IT: On Google and googling
Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:00 ESTAll most companies want is for their brands to become household names. But what about when they skip that stage and turn into generic terms such as hoover, xerox or - more recently - google? It's not all good, says Neil Barrett.
When you walk mud onto the carpet, do you hoover it up? And do you cling film your leftover food or do you put it in a tupperware pot? Would you xerox a sheet of paper that you'd printed off from your PC, and blue-tack it on the wall? More importantly, if you wanted to know what other things I've written on the web, would you google my name?
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