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batta bing it!
At last.
The kids say “search that up”
Yeah, I just say stuff like “Let me look it up”
They have become more an Ad-verb in recent years.
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Natural consequence of 1) google being shit, and 2) “looking something up” and similar phrases automatically meaning the internet. No one is going to assume the library anymore.
I miss the encyclopedia I had growing up. It was huge - like 5 inches thick. It knew everything and never let me down. And there were no ads or cookie banners to click out of.
I’ve been ducking for years never say that though. I use search or looked up.
Google played themselves by making an autocorrect that wouldn’t swear.
Hey - I should found a business named Thus.
…we need to make “Duck it up!” the new “Google it.”
I’ve found myself naturally doing this as my disdain for Google grows. I also like the term “query”.
allow me to query the information highway
information _super_highway
Fuck google 👍
My mom started hating the Ai features. she’s trying to make “duck duck going” a thing.
It’s never gonna happen but applaud the effort lol
Your mom is so fetch
If I remember right, DuckDuckGo called it ‘ducking’ or ‘duck it’ themselfes.
“Fuck a guess, Duck it!” “I’m gonna ‘duck out’ for a minute”
“Duck this shit.”
Duck around and find out!
Oh shit that one actually slaps for real
Wait till you hear Gilbert Gottfried’s version.
“SO A DUCK WALKS INTO A TALENT AGENCY…”
They went from a great tech shop where engineering excellence was the main driver to a strictly ad business the moment MBAs took over. Story as old as SV capitalism. They did the same to Boeing, HP and many others.
Ed Zitron has a nice write-up ‘The man who killed Google search’ here.
IBM comes to mind
Intel too
Mojeek search results remind of the old days
on one hand I want their trademark to be eroded but on the other hand I want them to be thought of less
I’m “ask jeevesing” it
I’ll ask Lycos to fetch it.
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You know I never realized this until reading the article. I do find myself saying “look it up” more nowadays than when I used to say “Google it.”
