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Google It! February 19, 2006

Well I dunno if any of you watch the tele that often, but automobile giant GM has let their child company, Pontiac have a new commercial to promote themselves. The commercial is one of the first commercials to actually say ‘google it’ instead of ‘search it’.Google has become one of the fastest growing companies on the market. Not only that, but Google has done something that is similar to  Kleenex, which took the term ‘grab a tissue’ to ‘grab a kleenex’. This might not seem like a NY Times front page story, but it definatly should grab some attention. Many companies hope for something like this, it is widely considered to be something that put’s your brand ahead of the rest, or ‘on the spot’. If something like this were to happen in say the Automobile world, to a company like Honda, than you wouldn’t drive a car anymore, you would drive a Honda. School students would learn a mis-perception that Henry Ford created America’s first Honda, instead of what he really did. This isn’t as big as a problem as something like Global Warming orAIDS is to the American people, but if this happens more and more often horrible things will result from it. If Honda really does become the new term for a car, other companies such as GM would loose all business and put a lot of people out of jobs. One person has already been put out of a job, Ask.com’s iconic figure Jeeves is being axed, or retired/retiring, said to be ‘axed’ for some stupid excuse. When we all know that Google caused this. Ask.com was a big hit, when I was in 4rth and 5th grade (1999-2001), when you searched you asked Jeeves. But that soon faded once Google had arose from the dark corner of the internet.

This is just a fair warning to y’all that Google may be a great search site with ton’s of features but  not everyone can be as big of a hit as Chuck Norris, but hey not many of us can be.

-Apollo