This is called antonomasia.
edit: is someone at meta/openai trying to age-shame me for using it?
Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
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#22Alta Vista It
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#23I've never heard of "Google it". I've only ever said "Input it to a web search engine".
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#24The 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.
Yes, this is the term my youngins use too!
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#25https://archive.is/Ucaxb No paywall
That's piracy.
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#26I'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?
Pretty 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.
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#27"ask Jeeves"
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#28"google it" does have delicious ironic potential starting, now.
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#29Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#30The 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.
Yeah, 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 :)