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Same as `googling` will long remain the synonym for `searching the internet`.

• chimeracoder 9y ago
  > Same as `googling` will long remain the synonym for `searching the internet`. That's more due to the ubiquity and dominance of Google itself. It's rare to hear someone say "I Googled it on Bing" or even "Let me Google my email" when they're using Outlook. Maybe not unheard-of, but definitely nowhere near the threshold needed for genericization.
  • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
    >It's rare to hear someone say "I Googled it on Bing" // True AFAIK but if you ever give computer support you'll find people "just google it" and use the greeting page on their browser [aka "the internet"] which is just as often Bing or Yahoo as it is Google. Google, the verb, is definitely generic but the RTM holders of Google have several hundred million of $currency to spend on lawyers to say it isn't.