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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
If I remember right, DuckDuckGo called it 'ducking' or 'duck it' themselfes.
Your mom is so fetch
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.
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.
IBM comes to mind
Intel too
I've found myself naturally doing this as my disdain for Google grows. I also like the term "query".
Fuck google π
allow me to query the information highway
information _super_highway
Yeah, I just say stuff like "Let me look it up"
PLEASE keep calling it "googling it", even if you use other search engines. If enough of us do that, then Google can lose the copyright to their name
Itβs a trademark not copyright. You donβt lose copyright but a trademark can be diluted to meaninglessness. Still would be funny for them to have to say: βGoogle brand searchβ like βKleenex brand tissuesβ!
Ooh, I like how you think
yeah, most people just search on their phones and/or using their browser. they usually use whatever the default is and don't question it much.
it's moved off of Google sometimes, and when it hasn't it's not obviously labeled as Google. especially when they use siri or ok Google or any other newer interface for it.
Altavista crew!
on one hand I want their trademark to be eroded but on the other hand I want them to be thought of less
I've started using "search it" or "kagi it" just to avoid using the term google. I can't even remember the last time I used Google on purpose and got useful results.
When you say "kagi it" does anyone ever know what you're talking about?
I didn't know that word. So I duckduckwent it.
I binged it. Still don't understand.
I think maybe 1-2 people in my entire time of doing it, but now at least the people I talk to regularly in software engineering know.
I know Kagi has its drama, but I can't get past how useful it has been to me. I did get a new home lab server recently so I may start setting up something for SearXNG.
Iβve been ducking for years never say that though. I use search or looked up.
...we need to make "Duck it up!" the new "Google it."
Google played themselves by making an autocorrect that wouldn't swear.
Hey - I should found a business named Thus.
At last.
batta bing it!
I saw that on some TV show years ago - Microsoft was obviously sponsoring since every laptop and phone had a windows logo on it, and at one point one character said to another "Just Bing it!" (in a context where you'd normally say "just google it")
I intentionally stopped using it. So. βIβm doing my part!β
The kids say "search that up"
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Mojeek search results remind of the old days
I fondly remember Beaucoup, mostly because of the boundless optimism necessary to assume Americans could spell Beaucoup.
I usually just say Bing It tbh. It's what my computer starts with, no reason to change it, you know? I miss Internet Explorer and Edge just feels different, Internet Explorer meant Internet kinda like AOL was the Internet for America if that makes sense.