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I 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 mi
by djsumdog 8y ago
I 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.