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The README says:

> Instead of googling for the site, I google for the site's Wikipedia article

This seems like a bit of unfortunate wording – there does not seem to be a Google search involved, just a search directly on Wikipedia (the English version).

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Much like Kleenex or xerox, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

Well yes, but not here. While "googling" is generic, it's still a specific narrow term and it does not mean "search".

Yeah, I might use “googling” to mean generic web search in everyday language, but I wouldn’t use it to refer to a site’s internal search function, and I wouldn’t use it at all in a technical description of some software.

you might not, but clearly the author does.

Right. If that wasn't the case, this comment chain calling that word choice by the author as unfortunate wouldn't exist.

I'm happy for them.

I understood that statement as an example of author's workflow before the existance of this addon, as in instead of googling for the site directly, he would rather google for the Wikipedia's article of the site and find the correct URL there.

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