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minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoSo what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
minus-squareMakeshift@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down1·2 months agoHonestly just “searched” is probably fine.
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·2 months agoYeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 months agoJust use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·2 months agoGoogling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
minus-squareLogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks. *I’m not American and would never use any of those words.
minus-squareMooserider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
Just use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
Thanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks.
*I’m not American and would never use any of those words.
Search
Searching.
I use ddg or ddg’d.
I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
Quaking ?