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I'm hoping the phrase "duck it" will become as widespread as "Google it"
by Tobaz 8y ago
I'm hoping the phrase "duck it" will become as widespread as "Google it"
- djsumdog 8y agoI always say, "Search for," e.g. "I searched for it online" I hate how Google has become a verb and I don't want to see another one named after a company. I miss the days of Lycos, Hotbot, Dogpile, Excite and where you could search for terms on different engines and get different results.
- craigsmansion 8y agoUsing, "google" as a verb pretty much started out as a meme-like phenomenon; a bit of an in-joke for the more tech savvy when Google was still rising to prominence. As these things sometimes go, mass adoption happened. What used to be cute and funny is now free marketing for a search tech behemoth but with people unwilling to give up this initial connotation of "tech savvy." I've long since reverted to "search online" or "search the web", but I do hope "to duck" gains some prominence; it could be the new "tech savvy" verb to use.
- h1d 8y agoWill people start saying, "your product's duckability sucks"?