Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old (nytimes.com)

Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.

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.

lmgtfy

https://archive.is/Ucaxb No paywall

Didn't ask, don't care.

RTFM

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!

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.

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..."

I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”

And?

I still say "Google it", but I don't use Google for search anymore -- haven't for almost two years, ever since I started subscribing to Kagi. If you're busting my ass about how I use "Google" as a verb, and you're still actually using Google to search, you can help yourself to a heaping serving of Shut The ** Up.

This is called antonomasia.

edit: is someone at meta/openai trying to age-shame me for using it?

Alta Vista It

I've never heard of "Google it". I've only ever said "Input it to a web search engine".

"ask Jeeves"

"google it" does have delicious ironic potential starting, now.

After cutting your finger do you ask for a bandaid or an Adhesive Medical Strip? There's a benefit to turning company names into Nouns or Verbs

Duck it

how about saying AI it

All you have to do is say you're going to "Bing it" and everyone in the room laughs.

I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.

In Finnish there is an acronym KVG (katso vittu Googlesta) which stands roughly for Look up on the fucking Google. I wonder what will replace it in the age of LLMs

The propaganda against Google Gemini is wild, but no thanks. We know how this will play out soon.

Funnily enough, I was considering writing a blog post on this very subject yesterday - none of my kids ever mentions Google at all, and even their friends who have Android phones use "search it up".