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Yeah, I've been using DDG for years, but I just can't get "Google it" out of my dictionary. I try to replace it with "Duck it", which feels stupid as fuck to say, but "Google it" doesn't feel any better.

I don't think it is a problem. Xerox is a thing.

I say "look it up". Took a while, but I managed to do it...

Yeah- I feel that in this case the whimsical name "Duckduckgo" is a liability for them. It's just hard to turn it into a verb in an unambiguous way.

How about "search"?

i use "search for it".

i've completely removed said word from my vocabulary. it can be done. break yo' mind free!

I'm not saying it proves anything, but Kleenex is synonymous with facial tissue and Velcro is synonymous with hook and loop fasteners. I "google" things on DuckDuckGo. :)

The people within one of my company's divisions refer to the internal knowledge base as "the google." IT defaults their browsers to Bing.

Just for your own edification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

Yeah, I was just pointing out that to most people, ["google" == "web search"]