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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am fairly sure that Westinghouse was the big name
in electric ice box's initially ( as in almost everything electric ) I would be
more inclined to think that "fridge" comes from re-fridge-rator. One of the
first jokes I can remember hearing as a kid went something like... A man opened
his refrigerator one day and to his surprise he found a bunny sleeping
inside. The man asked the long eared interloper what it thought it was doing and
the rabbit replied "it say's Westinghouse on the outside of this
thing doesn't it?" The man allowed as how it did. To which the cottontail
replied "well then, obviously I'm just 'westing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>gc</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=nils_peterson@wsu.edu href="mailto:nils_peterson@wsu.edu">Nils
Peterson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> ; <A
title=chasuk@gmail.com href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">Chasuk</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:41
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Re: Question about
Googling terminology</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Google has suffered the (un)happy fate of many other
successful brands, it has lost some of its tradename status by becoming a
common term to refer to a class of similar products: Kleenex, Xerox, and
Scotch Tape come to mind. And “fridge” I think comes from the brand name
Fridigaire (sp?). <BR><BR>So, Donovan, if you are Yahooing, you will be better
understood if you say you are “Internet searching” (note cap) or just
Googling.<BR><BR><BR>On 7/10/06 7:10 PM, "Donovan Arnold" <<A
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Chas,<BR> <BR> So if I use
Yahoo Search instead of Googling, am I
Yahooing?<BR> <BR> I agree that if telephone and
television are lowercase, so should Internet.
<BR> <BR> Best,<BR> <BR> _DJA<BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk
<chasuk@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></SPAN></FONT>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> On 7/10/06, Donovan Arnold
wrote:<BR><BR>> OK, so does Googling mean, only using "Google"?
Can you Google on Yahoo, or<BR>> Google by Mr. Jeeves, or does
Googling, strictly mean using Google?<BR><BR>I wouldn't use the word
"Googling" to refer to searches performed on<BR>other services, but I
believe that the usage, if it persists, will<BR>eventually encompass all
competing services, if that hasn't already<BR>started to
happen.<BR><BR>> And another question, can Internet be spelled
with a little "i"? Some one<BR>> needs to write an official rules of
the Internet book.<BR><BR>I find "internet" ugly, but www.wired.com
specifies the small "i" in<BR>their style book. Logically, I suppose that
small "i" makes sense, as<BR>we don't refer to to "Telephone" and
"Television."<BR></SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT
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