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Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
- dlcarrier 3mo agoAlta Vista It
- bookofjoe 3mo agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/magazine/google-it-search-it-up.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.RB_d.iIcg_UOwH8sD&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/magazine/google-it-search...
- monkpit 3mo agolmgtfy
- chomp 3mo agoThank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
- pachouli-please 3mo agoI quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.
- newsomix9xl 3mo agoMaybe "google it" can refer to the uglified nature of English usage by conflating an activity with a morally ambiguous entity who eventually and inevitably enshittifies it. So yeah, it got Googled.
- rz2k 3mo agoZip it!
- mixmastamyk 3mo agoThe local young person here likes to say, "search it up!" Which I find amusing for reasons not completely understood. Either way, better than giving free advertising to a multinational spying firm.
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- 2cynykyl 3mo agoYes, this is the term my youngins use too!
- lightandlight 3mo agoYeah, I used to Google things until Google went to shit. Now I use Kagi, but it doesn't sound like a verb. I'll gladly add "search [it] up" to my lexicon :)
- 1bpp 3mo agohttps://archive.is/Ucaxb https://archive.is/Ucaxb No paywall
- Rabbit504030201 3mo agoThat's piracy.
- 1bpp 3mo agoYep! <3
- compiler-devel 3mo agoDidn't ask, don't care.
- variadix 3mo agoRTFM
- millzlane 3mo agoRAFB
- shahedshah 3mo agoI've never got into turning business names into verbs, and I am from the generation that heavily used "Google it". Nowadays, I have colleagues suggest to "Ask Claude/ChatGPT". I want to collaborate and build on the team experience, not ask a system that can hallucinate an answer!
- rf15 3mo ago"We hallucinate our answers exclusively in-house, go to the office fridge and grab some shrooms"
- JacobAsmuth 3mo agoCan you give an example of a question that you would google, but your colleagues would "Ask Claude" and they get a hallucination but you get the right answer?
- helpfulclippy 3mo agoPretty much anything to do with transportation routes — it keeps telling me to take a non-existent train line, or a bus that isn’t on the schedule it thinks, or something like that.
- matltc 3mo agoIronically: Claude Code docs Tends to latch onto whatever was true at the time of its training run unless you point it to the llm.txt.
- Xorakios 3mo agoProbably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-it
- dnemmers 3mo agoThe term 'google' does a good job of saying 'internet search' with far fewer letters, and with much more uniqueness. That alone helped in the battle with 'Dog Pile' and Alta Vista.
- newsomix9xl 3mo agoI agree, that's why I keep it fresh with the kiddos by using the more hep "give it to Ask Jeeves" or "run it through gopher". But since I also like to quack it with Duck Duck Go, daddy-o, I sometimes just say " I used a search engine..."
- olivierestsage 3mo agoI just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”
- biglyburrito 3mo agoStart the reactor, free Mars.
- biglyburrito 3mo agoAnd? I still say "Google it", but I don't use Google for search anymore -- haven't for almost two years, ever since I started subscribing to Kagi. If you're busting my ass about how I use "Google" as a verb, and you're still actually using Google to search, you can help yourself to a heaping serving of Shut The ** Up.
- wtk 3mo agoThis is called antonomasia. edit: is someone at meta/openai trying to age-shame me for using it?
- shitter 3mo agoI've never heard of "Google it". I've only ever said "Input it to a web search engine".
- Simulacra 3mo ago"ask Jeeves"
- metalman 3mo ago"google it" does have delicious ironic potential starting, now.
- Whoppertime 3mo agoAfter cutting your finger do you ask for a bandaid or an Adhesive Medical Strip? There's a benefit to turning company names into Nouns or Verbs
- ButlerianJihad 3mo ago150 years ago, I may have asked for a bandage or first aid. Perhaps those terms helped give an idea to the marketing team. Being more accustomed to medical terms now, sometimes I call it a “dressing” which is also two syllables. “Adhesive Medical Strip” sounds one of those database categories someone invented for a store or clinic, once Band-Aid had competitors.
- IllegalPrimes 3mo agoDuck it
- nc55g3g 3mo agohow about saying AI it
- noman-land 3mo agoAll you have to do is say you're going to "Bing it" and everyone in the room laughs.
- rickcarlino 3mo agoI need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.
- crazybonkersai 3mo agoIn Finnish there is an acronym KVG (katso vittu Googlesta) which stands roughly for Look up on the fucking Google. I wonder what will replace it in the age of LLMs
- sublinear 3mo agoThe propaganda against Google Gemini is wild, but no thanks. We know how this will play out soon.
- drcongo 3mo agoFunnily enough, I was considering writing a blog post on this very subject yesterday - none of my kids ever mentions Google at all, and even their friends who have Android phones use "search it up".
- rasz 3mo agoI tiktok it. Its not true unless a random person reads it out loud to a cell phone.