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Comment by Klonoar | Hacker News Reader

How does Bing, at whatever point, overcome the odd issue of: "google it" is a verb in pretty much every culture I've traveled through. Bing isn't even in the conversation.

Changing the tech doesn't mean much on this one, but I'm curious what others think here.

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I expect it will be like saying "xeroxing". People pretty much know what you mean, but it's an archaic workflow, so you don't hear it a lot.

I think the paradigm shift here is that you're asking questions / getting answers / researching. You are no longer "searching for the right web page", which is what googling means.

People will use the phrase "Bing It" as a joke, but due to their increased use of Bing, they will say it so often that it soon won't be a joke.

In a similar zeitgeist, there was a video from some guy claiming to be an (ex?) microsoft employee telling a story about how Ballmer would force everyone to say "bing it!" in the same way Mean Girls tried to make "fetch" happen, with similar results.

I also recall, possibly incorrectly, that the whole thing was made up.

It was a funny video, and seemed in character of Ballmer after the infamous "Developers!" display.

Back when I used it years ago I had MS employees on my Facebook and they would use the phrase "Bing it!" in their feed or in replies/conversations.

I thought it came from Groundhog Day

Murray's character: Ned Ryerson?

Ned: Bing!

https://youtu.be/7JEryd3Y_G8?t=45

I don't use the name brand tissue paper, but I always call it a kleenex. It'll likely be that 'googling stuff' means "looking things up online" long after Google loses dominance.

It'll 23 skidoo when the time comes.

Hand me a kleenex, will you?

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