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minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoSo what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoGoogling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
minus-squareLogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 hours agoThanks. 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.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days 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-up0·2 days 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-up0·2 days agoHonestly just “searched” is probably fine.
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days 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.
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.
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.
Searching.
Search
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
I use ddg or ddg’d.