People don’t use the word “google” to mean “search the web”; they use it to mean “search the web using the Google search engine”. If someone told me he googled

People don’t use the word “google” to mean “search the web”; they use it to mean “search the web using the Google search engine”. If someone told me he googled something and sent me a link to Bing search results, his usage of the word would strike me as incorrect. I can’t say for sure, but I think that a lot of people would have the same reaction.