~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.
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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A friend and I usually call it “duck it” or “ducking it” when talking to each other. To others it’s “googling”.
Fun side note: Someone here on lemmy a while back was having a fit about something I said because it was from one of Google services, and while he’s right that Google is evil and invasive and all that I had to chuckle when they told me to Google one specific thing on the matter. “Don’t use Google, Google it for more info.”
I’ve been working on not saying “Google it” for quite a while. After saying it for over a fucking decade, its a hard habit to break. But I’m finally getting used to saying just “Look it up”
Did you try googling it on ddg?
Lol you technically can google from ddg using !g before your search and it goes directly there.
Ive been saying “search online” instead
This is important I think. While the word has clearly stuck beyond the actual company’s services … the word “search” in IT hasn’t died and will likely still be used. If the word ever fades away, it may be in part because “search” lived.
I also try to say “look it up online” as much as possible in stead of Googling 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
I still do sometimes, despite using DDG for about a decade now and working in IT myself. Haven’t met anyone who doesn’t say it in my area.
You could say that you’re “Binging it”
Same. I don’t really use Google search any more, but I still keep the phrase. It’s just something people understand.
Yeah, alot of people still do. I still use “search it online” though.
I still hear people say it, but I won’t.
Google’s service is so abominably enshittified now that if you’re not using udm14.com, there’s really no point.
I hear a lot less people saying it nowadays, honestly
Me, all over this thread:
It is weird to observe younger generations using search engines with how they treat them as some sort of fully natural language processing butlers.
Where you or I might formulate a query as: “films famous within Italy” or simply “famous Italian films”
Gen alpha will generally conduct that same search as: “What are the movies that are most famous in Italy?”
Does it give a different result? I think it doesn’t matter. In that case it might be more natural to speak in full sentences for those who never had the need to be specific and concise to a search engine. Because there used to be a need to be specific and concise to have the search engine give you a good result. Now it’s so heavily optimised and commercialised, it doesn’t really matter what you input.
I think it used to, the way I search as a netizen for 20 years is definitely more of a “keyword” style like the original commenter mentioned, but that comes down to how I became “trained” to search as a lot of the unnecessary words used to make the results less accurate in my experience. I think search engines have gotten better at figuring out what the root of the request is, while also serving up more crap in general due to SEO gaming.
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.
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”.
Consistently. They even use the let me google it for you website, even though Google hasn’t looked like that for a while now.
I am particularly cautious with my words, so I’ll say search for it on the web and when talking about my own research, I’ll talk about what I was able to find via a simple websearch.
Sadly, fewer and fewer things are readily available via a simple websearch anymore, and I have to engage in sophisticated websearches in which I rotate keywords or key phrases and their synonyms.
I primarily use DDG, but the vast majority of people I talk to (including other tech savvy people) use Google. I feel like “search” is too generic (search where?), but “search the internet” is weird. And saying “Bing it” or “Duck it” or whatever just sounds overly contrarian. But if I say “Google it”, people know exactly what I mean.
So yes, I will “Google where to buy some bandaids” by searching DDG for adhesive bandages.
I feel like “google it” has become a shorter version of “look it up online” and can be used, regardless of the search engine
Google is about to sue you because they don’t want to lose their trademark.
I say “look it up”. Applies to lots of forms of search, be it google, DDG, YouTube, Wikipedia, a dictionary, a manual, pretty much anything.
