What it the logic of this – or – is this just a flaw....?
Google began using Answers.com for definitions links in virtually ALL of its popular keyword Searches...BUT NOT FOR THE TERM GOOGLE!!
http://www.answers.com/Google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Google&btnG=Google+Search
Results 1 – 10 of about 2,590,000,000 for google. (0.11 seconds) |
I'm not seeing what your seeing. When I pull up the answers.com/Google link I get <quote> Goo·gle (gū'gəl) pronunciation
A trademark used for an Internet search engine. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb, sometimes in lowercase: “A high school English teacher … recently Googled a phrase in one student's paper and found it had been taken from a sample essay of an online editing service” (Chris Berdik). </quote>
and when i do a define:google search I get the first result i get is
<quote> Google, a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box. </quote>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3AGoogle&btnG=Search |
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Google&btnG=Google+Search
click on this and look at the extreme right is there a link for definition |
Ahh, I see what you mean. humm....wierd. |
This has been the case for many years. |
Here's a post on this very topic I wrote a year ago. http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050604-123344
So, I would doubt it's a glitch.
Interestingly, Answers.com, the provider of definitions for Google offers several. http://www.answers.com/topic/google
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Maybe they don't like that their trademark appears in dictionaries :) |
If the company listed a "definition" for Google and it became common language (which it has) it might lessen the strength of their trademark. This might be the reason for not listing a "definition" for the search term "Google" |
Lots of other companies (tech and others) are available.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cisco Several disambiguation options including the tech company
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=airbus
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=gm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=yahoo again disambiguation options including the company,.
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