~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?

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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?