The Googlewashing Of Our Language

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 3, 2003 @12:34PM from the english-evolution dept.

KIondike writes "The Register talks about how a term ("Second Superpower") coined by the anti-war culture suddenly got radically neutered and altered by a weblog that a lot of people link to. Searching for the term on Google now brings up his blog and other people talking about his blog for the first several entries. Can Google's power to give information to the people be misused and perverted? This only took 42 days." First the widespread usage of "googling" to mean web searching, and now this.

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Re:The first superpower.._IS A Troll by Tuna_Shooter · 2003-04-03 12:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I read the original post with enthusiasm... but alas it seemed like a simple troll to me...

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