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> * Companies switched from being singular plurals ("Google is deprecating another product.") to plural singulars ("Google are deprecating another product.")

> * Moving away from verbed nouns ("Google it") to multipart verbs ("search it up").

Resist! Google is trying to get you to stop Googling things, but we don't have to listen to the corporate overlords.



I think organisations (companies, teams) being singular/plural differs depending on what country you're in, so perhaps this is a bleeding across of conventions due to globalisation.




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