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- Didn't ask, don't care.
- All you have to do is say you're going to "Bing it" and everyone in the room laughs.by noman-land
- The propaganda against Google Gemini is wild, but no thanks. We know how this will play out soon.by sublinear
- Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.by chomp
- Maybe "google it" can refer to the uglified nature of English usage by conflating an activity with a morally ambiguous entity who eventually and inevitably enshittifies it.
So yeah, it got Googled.
by newsomix9xl - Zip it!by rz2k
- I quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.
- I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.by rickcarlino
- This is called antonomasia.
edit: is someone at meta/openai trying to age-shame me for using it?
by wtk - by bookofjoe
- I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”
- Start the reactor, free Mars.by biglyburrito
- I've never got into turning business names into verbs, and I am from the generation that heavily used "Google it".
Nowadays, I have colleagues suggest to "Ask Claude/ChatGPT". I want to collaborate and build on the team experience, not ask a system that can hallucinate an answer!
by shahedshah - "We hallucinate our answers exclusively in-house, go to the office fridge and grab some shrooms"by rf15
- Probably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-itby Xorakios
- Can you give an example of a question that you would google, but your colleagues would "Ask Claude" and they get a hallucination but you get the right answer?by JacobAsmuth
- The term 'google' does a good job of saying 'internet search' with far fewer letters, and with much more uniqueness. That alone helped in the battle with 'Dog Pile' and Alta Vista.by dnemmers
- The local young person here likes to say, "search it up!" Which I find amusing for reasons not completely understood. Either way, better than giving free advertising to a multinational spying firm.by mixmastamyk
- Yes, this is the term my youngins use too!by 2cynykyl
- Yeah, I used to Google things until Google went to shit. Now I use Kagi, but it doesn't sound like a verb. I'll gladly add "search [it] up" to my lexicon :)
- I agree, that's why I keep it fresh with the kiddos by using the more hep "give it to Ask Jeeves" or "run it through gopher".
But since I also like to quack it with Duck Duck Go, daddy-o, I sometimes just say " I used a search engine..."
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