Today in my English class, my teacher was talking about finding literary criticisms online. There are a couple of databases, gale and ebsco. Twice while my teacher was talking, he said “Go to gale’s website, and Google your book”. Just replace “gale” with “ebsco”.
“Google your book”.
Not “search for your book”,
Google it.
Towards the end of class, he was explaining himself once more, and he caught his mistake. After saying “Google” again, he corrected himself, and said search. That just verified what I thought he meant in the first place. The word “Google” is becoming a verb that means “To Search”. I have never heard anyone say “Yahoo that”, or “Bing it”. Google has become such a powerhouse, I don’t think Yahoo or Bing have much of a chance at catching up.
When looking at my website statistics, I often have many times more traffic coming from Google than Yahoo and Bing combined. This might be because my Google rankings are higher, but you know what? I don’t focus on trying to raise my rankings in Yahoo or Bing. Not because I neclect them on purpose, but because it doesn’t even cross my mind.
I don’t see the end of Google coming any time soon.
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Lil ‘ol Bing has been sending me a nice increase in traffic in the last month or so. Actually took the time to do some research and try to optimize a bit more for Yahoo and Bing earlier this week. Definitely worthwhile alongside “Google SEO”… that extra couple thousand per month is worth it!
Good observation and it’s always good to challenge the “authority” of a teacher. Keeps them in check
Also, “photoshop” has become a common verb, i.e. “photoshop this!”