~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?

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    4 months ago

    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?”