Let's Ditch Google (verb)

adam.farkas.pro · 2026-09-30 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
Even without using google.com for three years now*, when I ask somebody to look up something on the web, I still use "to Google" (in German, "zu googeln") for that. The years of Google's search engine monopoly still work hard in me… Starting today, I will pay more

Let's Ditch Google (verb)

Even without using google.com for three years now\*, when I ask somebody to look up something on the web, I still use "to Google" (in German, "zu googeln") for that. The years of Google's search engine monopoly still work hard in me…

Starting today, I will pay more attention and use the generic words "look up", "search" ("nachschauen", "suchen") . It's not even that I am totaly against eponyms (Deonym), its just unfair to the search engine I actually use for naming it differently.

We'll see how well this will go.

\* Happy kagi.com user

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