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arrow-up1499imagesame question sh.itjust.worksQuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-211 hours agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours agoSo what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 minutes agoGoogling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours agoJust use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
minus-squareMooserider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
minus-squareMakeshift@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·8 hours agoHonestly just “searched” is probably fine.
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoYeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
Just use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
Search
Quaking ?
Searching.
I use ddg or ddg’d.