~10 years ago I would say “google it” often. But now I don’t think I say that at all, and would say “search for it” or similar.
I don’t think I really consciously decided to stop saying it, but I suppose it just felt weird to explicitly refer to one search engine while using another.
Just me? Do you say, or hear others say, “google it” in $current_year? Is it different for techies and normies?
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I always say things like “you could look it up” or “did you look it up”. That way people can use the search engine or database of their choice. Americans are so trained to call things by a corporate name / brand / product. Kleenex, qtips, advil, tylenol, dockers, vaseline, some people don’t even know the real name of those products. And saying “google it” has almost become an insult on so many levels.
I say “look it up” but my housemate for instance has passive-aggressively told someone today that he found the answer to their question after 15 seconds of googling. I’ve heard “googlen” in Dutch but I say “opzoeken”. I’m very much no friend of Google though.
How about “SearXNG it”
I often still do. In japanese, google even became its own verb (possibly because it works phonetically and syntactically) both as google-suru and google-ru (グーグル)
I’ve been trying to say “search online” or “websearch” for the past year or two.
Now that you’ve got me thinking about this, I wonder if there are any journalist style guides that cover this. That’s often an interesting reference point for what people are saying versus an attempt at more objective way.
Yes, same way i say i need a “Kleenex” to open the door to the “Porta potty” so i don’t have to shit in the “dumpster”.
Edit: if it were actually a commercial, it would be the best commercial ever created.
Naw, it’s Do your own research now /s
I usually will say something along the lines of “look it up” or “I can look it up”
I’m looking for something new because I hate Google now. Good company turned very bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
I’ve started using fairly often these days.
When lookin for answers to technical questions it works better because it isn’t trying to sell me something.Give Kagi a try. You get 100 free searches which is more than enough to decide if it’s worth paying for.
Then you should duck it!
Unfortunately it’s very similar to 2 swear words so it would both be easily misunderstandable and on mobile autocorrect would easily pick the wrong variant.
I use duckduckgo.
I want “duck it” to become a thing.
Autocorrect is rooting for you.
I tell people to altavista it
Encarta it!
AskJeeves it!
Infoseek it
Uh, “Bing it” ! 🥴
I do even though I don’t use them, because I want them to lose copyright of the name. that would be funny I think.
I don’t know if this is true everywhere, but I can say my elementary school kid and friends all say “search it up”, and although they have school-issued Chromebooks and use Google for search, I can’t actually recall ever hearing them say “google it”.
Google is still the most used search engine, therefore the term “Google it” is still pretty widely used. Replacing it with a different search engine name would sound kinda odd. Would you want to “Bing [something]”? Or “Yahoo it”? Or “DuckDuckGo it”?
Even then, who even uses the first two anymore?
Ask Jeeves about it
For the moment
