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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?

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  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.

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    • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.

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    • logi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks.

      *I’m not American and would never use any of those words.

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  • EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Search

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  • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Searching.

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  • Mooserider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use ddg or ddg’d.

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quaking ?

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• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, use it on the DDG browser for extra cool.

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• DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)

  (So far so good. :)

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