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The README says: > Instead of googling for the site, I google for the site's Wikipedia article This seems like a bit of unfortunate wording – there does not s
by simonkagedal 2y ago
The README says:
> Instead of googling for the site, I google for the site's Wikipedia article
This seems like a bit of unfortunate wording – there does not seem to be a Google search involved, just a search directly on Wikipedia (the English version).
- mardef 2y agoMuch like Kleenex or xerox, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
- rplnt 2y agoWell yes, but not here. While "googling" is generic, it's still a specific narrow term and it does not mean "search".
- simonkagedal 2y agoYeah, I might use “googling” to mean generic web search in everyday language, but I wouldn’t use it to refer to a site’s internal search function, and I wouldn’t use it at all in a technical description of some software.
- fragmede 2y agoyou might not, but clearly the author does.
- ziddoap 2y agoRight. If that wasn't the case, this comment chain calling that word choice by the author as unfortunate wouldn't exist.
- simonkagedal 2y agoI'm happy for them.
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- aljaz823 2y agoI understood that statement as an example of author's workflow before the existance of this addon, as in instead of googling for the site directly, he would rather google for the Wikipedia's article of the site and find the correct URL there.