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OMG! Let's all Yahoo

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Friday, August 18, 2006
17 years ago2,327 views

Yahoo Blog:

There's been some reports about how Google is trying to stop people from using the term, googling. When I heard about it, I was like, "Hello, gift horse, mouth!"

Most companies, including ours, spend a great deal of time trying to turn our brands into household names. In fact, we just kicked off a marketing campaign called "Your Yahoo! has changed" that is meant to encourage people to have fun with our brand by creating their own commercials.

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Google has to do this. Here is explanation from former Google employee: http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2006/07/this-word-just-in.html

"companies like Google are forced to write letters to those who misuse their trademark as a verb (verbs cannot be trademarked). If they don’t, the US Patent and Trademark Office may decide that the company is no longer interested in maintaining ownership of its trademarked term."

Yahoo tries to suggest that Google is a big evil company, and win on that. But who's really evil?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yahoo is pathetic, but their Yodel is really nice.

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<<Yahoo is pathetic, but their Yodel is really nice.>>

did you notice they linked to our digg of the yodel??

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

OMG! They have a new ad campaign (I've seen this when they launched the new homepage):
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/newyahoocampaign/

pokemo [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

>>did you notice they linked to our digg of the yodel??
where?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

see the link from my first comment

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