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Or just use any other better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good; quit pushing garbage.
Going to take me a lonnnng time to retrain my brain to not use "google" as a verb. I need to swap to the generic "search" or something
Edit: I didn't realize, but am not at all surprised, that "google" is officially a verb in the Merriam Webster dictionary
Or we make Google the generic term for searching something online and they lose the trademark.
I hope you're this pedantic when people ask for a Kleenex or a q-tip, or when they use Velcro
They might be, depending on their region.
I only know what a q-tip is because I've seen americans say it online.
And while Kleenex is a brand over here, you'd get a slightly funny look if you asked for 'a kleenex' rather than 'a tissue'.
Velcro is definitely used here though, and so is googling, but variants of 'look it up' are more commonly used because it's more generic.
What else can you call a qtip?
Cotton bud, cotton swab, ear bud
Ask yourself what is a Q Tip?
I use google as a generic verb to search for something on the internet
Kinda crazy that in a space where we are concerned about a armed and masked gunman murders a woman in cold blood, as we wonder how to best cope and move forward - people will still argue about search engine choices.