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Agreed. Google should really be applauded. I'm bored of all this "Ah but google have access to all my data. What if they turn evil".

There was a recent story about Google adding a cookie so that people without google accounts/not logged in, got some extra functionality. Instead of being applauded for improving the product, people started moaning that they were harvesting data from everyone. Tracking peoples movements on the web so they can sell that data. I don't know why there's this recent "But what if Google start being evil" meme, but I think I'll trust them until they do show signs of abusing that trust.



OT, but why do people keep saying "Google have too much power," "Google have 60 billion dollars", etc. ? It's a singular noun. The circle is round. Google is powerful. It is turning evil. We are hungry. etc.

This is not meant to flame, I'm really curious why/when the usage shifted.


Companies are treated as singular nouns in American English and as plural nouns in British English.


I don't know about axod, but some of us don't have English as our first language. Its not always easy to have perfect grammar that comes naturally to a native speaker, but I personally try to be as correct as possible often going through 4-5 edits and going back to it to make sure that people, other than me, can read what I am typing. Still, mistakes slips through. Its a work in progress, some do better than others.

I waited almost a year before I decided to register an account (this place and other forums) and contribute to the discussion, when I was sure that I can put words together in a sentence that people can understand; only to find out that the best way to write proper English (or any language for that matter) is to write often and make mistakes so that others can point them out and you learn from that.


British English


Really?

I would have written those sentences as: "Google has too much Power", "Google has 60 billion dollars"

The usage of have seems wrong to me


Both are common/valid, at least in the UK, but the plural is more common here than singular afaik.




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