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Comment by Borealid

Another way to view this is as metonymy. "Google" is a metonym for "Google Staff", so using "their" to refer to the humans-making-up-the-corporation (as referenced by the metonym) is appropriate.

I agree it's correct English to say "Google have launched their new product".

parent Borealid 7 days ago

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