~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?
In the US it’s Scotch tape, we never had that UK brand, so it’s unheard of as a generic also.
And Hoover is a brand, but I guess wasn’t as dominant, so nearly everyone just says vacuum as the verb.
Maybe I was thinking of cellophane