There's such a thing as too much Google

By and large, having your brand become part of the vernacular, as in Kleenex and Band-Aid, is a good thing. But at times, we have to wonder whether the folks at Google—the latest brand to become a proxy for its entire product category—wonder if its influence extends too far. Like the Internet itself, the brand shows up in as many negative contexts these days as it does positive ones. For instance, last night we were reading this