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Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
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Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#12The 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.
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#13Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
I quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.
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#14I'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!
"We hallucinate our answers exclusively in-house, go to the office fridge and grab some shrooms"
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#15I 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..."
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#16Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
Maybe "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.
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#17I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#18I'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!
Can 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?
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#19And?
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.
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#20I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”
Start the reactor, free Mars.