Funnily 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".
Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
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Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#42I tiktok it. Its not true unless a random person reads it out loud to a cell phone.
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#43I'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?
Ironically: 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.