Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old

I 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..."

The 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.

I'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!

The 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.

I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”

Didn't ask, don't care.

This is called antonomasia.

edit: is someone at meta/openai trying to age-shame me for using it?

I've never heard of "Google it". I've only ever said "Input it to a web search engine".

Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.

"google it" does have delicious ironic potential starting, now.

https://archive.is/Ucaxb No paywall

Alta Vista It

RTFM

And?

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.

"ask Jeeves"

lmgtfy