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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modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoSo what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
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.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Search
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Searching.
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.
scytale@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I use ddg or ddg’d.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quaking ?
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.