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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 6 天前

modus@lemmy.world · 6 天前

So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?

Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 6 天前

Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.

tomi000@lemmy.world · 5 天前

Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.

Axolotl@feddit.it · 5 天前

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

woelkchen@lemmy.world · 5 天前

Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.

Logi@lemmy.world · 5 天前

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.

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 6 天前

Search

AmyAye@nord.pub · 6 天前

Searching.

Mooserider@lemmy.world · 6 天前

I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.

scytale@piefed.zip · 6 天前

I use ddg or ddg’d.

daannii@lemmy.world · 6 天前

Quaking ?