- The term 'google' does a good job of saying 'internet search' with far fewer letters, and with much more uniqueness. That alone helped in the battle with 'Dog Pile' and Alta Vista.
- Didn't ask, don't care.
- I've never got into turning business names into verbs, and I am from the generation that heavily used "Google it".
Nowadays, I have colleagues suggest to "Ask Claude/ChatGPT". I want to collaborate and build on the team experience, not ask a system that can hallucinate an answer!
- Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
- I quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.
- https://archive.is/Ucaxb No paywall
- lmgtfy
