It's for similar reasons that people call vacuum cleaners 'hoovers', they 'googl...

		simonh on Jan 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and why the Relational Model works for databas... It's for similar reasons that people call vacuum cleaners 'hoovers', they 'google' for things on DuckDuckGo, they 'Xerox' documents on a Cannon copier, all on-road reflective lane markers are a 'Catseye' etc. It may not be accurate but I don't find it at all odd.