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Does anyone else use the phrase "I'm going to google XYZ" while referring to actually searching it up on Kagi, DDG, or another search engine?
by ajdude 9mo ago
Does anyone else use the phrase "I'm going to google XYZ" while referring to actually searching it up on Kagi, DDG, or another search engine?
- chroma205 9mo ago[flagged]
- jeremyjh 9mo agoYes, it’s like Xerox or Kleenex except it’s actually still a monopoly. In a happy Kagi user but I know hardly anyone else is.
- dijksterhuis 9mo agonope, i say “i’m going to search for XYZ” or similar
- eli 9mo agoIronically this is a bad thing for Google from a legal standpoint. If a term becomes "genericized" then it can lose trademark protection. "Aspirin" is a famous example. It used to be a brand name for acetylsalicylic acid medication, but became such a common way to refer to it that in the US any company can now use it.
- 1-more 9mo agoApparently the "lost in the Treaty of Versailles" explanation is a bit of a just-so story: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/55729/why-did-bayer-lose-aspirin-and-heroin-trademarks-under-the-1919-treaty-of-versai https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/55729/why-did-ba...
- pixl97 9mo agoYes, but more in the past than now, simply because almost everybody seems to use google itself. For example I'd hear people say "I'll Google that", then use Yahoo when they were still a major search engine.
- shervinafshar 9mo agoI've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".
- filterfish 9mo agoLikewise and if people say, "why don't you google that?" I usually reply (obviously to everyone's annoyance:-) "I don't use Google". The general response is a blank, uncomprehending look.
- cormorant 9mo agoTo a young enough audience, you will sound like you exclusively use ChatGPT instead.
- kqr 9mo agoI used to. Even when I actually used DDG. Now that I use Kagi (and thus am on the second web search service after I stopped using Google) it started to feel silly so I say "search the web" these days.
- dooglius 9mo agoYeah, I don't feel the need to have conversations go on a tangent about explaining what Kagi is
- bronson 9mo agoNow my family usually says "I'm going to ask AI."
- matkoniecz 9mo agoyes, me
- 201984 9mo agoI do
- Wilder7977 9mo agoIn Italian verbs for foreign words are almost always generated from the first conjugation (-are), which means "to google" is actually "googl-are". With kagi, one cannot miss the opportunity to generate a similar verb " kag-are", which sounds exactly like "going number 2" (in a relatively rude way), which is what I ironically use every time I decide not to use the generic "search" verb. I consider it one of the minor benefits of being a kagi user!
- smsm42 9mo agoNope. I stopped using google for search many years ago, and stopped using it as a verb about the same time. I admit I've used something like "are you banned on Google or what?" a couple of times though.