Googling

[t0p]

What do you call "searching the internet"? I say "googling" cos I use Google. But I know some say "searching". Do Bing users say "binging"? Jus' curious etc.

[user1397]

never heard of anyone saying binging, but I definitely hear googling a lot. also often hear "look it up online"

[cwblanch]

I mostly hear "googling", I've heard a few people say "binging"

My favourite is just to say "internet it" because it gets a pause where people think I don't know what a computer is.

[Copper Bezel]

I say "Google search it," but it sounds like an affectation. "To google" has become a fully accepted verb. "To bing" probably never will in the same sense. Searching Wikipedia, of course, is to "wiki it."

[Diandra]

The most words used in my environtment : Googling or Google it. For bing, maybe just search in bing

[acedia2]

I say,
browsing.
Just browsing.
Try browsing it.
Have you browsed?
Are you a browser?

:lolflag:

[monkeybrain20122]

Who use bing anyway? :) But then I haven't heard of yahooing or Gogoducking either.

[Dennis N]

Google is a synonym for search on the Internet. Like Kleenex is a synonym for facial tissue. The dominant brand wins out and we (society) invent a new verb or noun.

[pfeiffep]

I use a saying the I adopted and changed from TV ... "Go to the Internet"
The saying came from a sportscaster who like to say "let's go to the tape" yes long before dvrs

[Francesco_Verlato]

I never heard binging, but if the users of this search engine will exceed google's users probably we could hear that :popcorn:

[Bucky Ball]

I do a web search or look it up on the internet. I NEVER Google anything and never use the expression 'google it' to replace 'do a web search'. I have as little to do with Google as possible.

I also never say 'Pass me a Kleenex'. It's not a Kleenex (unless it's a Kleenex!), it is a tissue. Just like 'googling' isn't a google if you are not using Google. It is a web search. Understand what 'Googling' is and that the use of that verb is convenient, but to my mind, it always sounds incorrect. ;)

('Duckduckgo it'. Sounds all wrong, cos it is, which is what 'Google it' sounds like to me. But that's just me ... to assume everyone is using Google is equivalent to assuming all machines are installed with Windows, and if they're not, OSX. You don't go and do some 'Windows-ing'. You do some computing.)

[Copper Bezel]

There's actually probably a point at which "xeroxing" became less popular than "photocopying," but I'm not doing the trends / ngrams search.

[echotech2]

Anyone old enough to remember "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls"?

[Bucky Ball]

Anyone old enough to remember "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls"?

Haha. Yes! I still say it now and then, believe it or not. Not that anyone I've ever said it to has any idea what I'm talking about. I have no idea myself where the expression originated. An advertising campaign, at a guess? ;)

As for xerox, if you run a Win machine, have a look for the folder called 'xerox'. It is probably still there. Does nothing and is a throwback to some deal done between Microsoft and Xerox decades ago, I believe. But interesting point about 'photocopying' taking over from 'xeroxing'. Well spotted.

[echotech2]

For Bucky Ball:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=funk+wagnalls&t=canonical&ia=about

[Bucky Ball]

Err, I know it is an encyclopedia, but thanks. I meant the saying 'Go look it up in your Funk and Wagnells'. From an advertising campaign for Funk and Wagnells from four or five decades ago, or longer perhaps? Google me that! See, I said it! :-k

[AllenGG]

....... and be tracked. !!!!!

Hey google this ! ......... and watch how many adverts show up. Facebook being the worst offender.
..... so! stop the googling machine already !

Go >>>>>>>>>>>> DuckDuckGo <<<<<<< ...... https://duckduckgo.com/settings

AGG http://ubuntuforums.org/images/icons/icon6.png

[Georges_Bouchard]

If you use google search and have a gmail account you are being "suckered." Google records all your searches for many years inside your gmail account.

[echotech2]

Sorry Bucky Ball, I posted the wrong link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2787862/posts


Those of you older than dirt will perhaps recall a phrase from the old hit TV show, “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In:” “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.” It came into popular usage at the time probably because it WAS a funny sounding name and “Funk” was as close to that other “F” word they could never get away with in the late 60s and remain on the air.

[Copper Bezel]

If you use google search and have a gmail account you are being "suckered." Google records all your searches for many years inside your gmail account.
If you 1) don't know this and 2) care, you are being suckered. Otherwise, you're just making a tradeoff between featureset and control. Same as we do by using Ubuntu with its vendor-provided binary blobs instead of something FSF-stamped.

[Sasha_Aderolop]

I say "Google search it" or "Yahoo search it", never use googling..

[Aqua001]

I just say "search".

[Linuxratty]

I use Startpage for search,but I also say Google it or Googling.

[AllenGG]

Searching with Google has obvious drawbacks. They track you and repost info, and repost things, like product searches on other websites, as ads.
Sample > search car wash and wax, results include .... Meguiar’s new Ulti.......
and watch an ad for the same product to appear many times on other pages, like "Facebook"
, try using DuckDuckGo , https setting. (https://duckduckgo.com/)
No tracking.

[portalhavoc]

, try using DuckDuckGo , https setting. (https://duckduckgo.com/)
No tracking.
I hate to say this but. DDG is for paranoid weirdos who believe that they're being spied upon by the government.
There I said it.
No offense to anyone who uses it. It's just my opinion. ;)

And also.
I'm not trying to start an argument about it. Because arguing is against the rules.

Now back on topic...

[18echo2]

I know this is probably more popular than just around my office, but we use the term "GTS" when telling someone to search something.
I still use LMGTFY when I send someone a "link" to something they simply cannot find on their own...

I will admit that Google won me over from Alta Vista in the dark days of dial up with their slick, fast-loading, banner-free start page.

[visagiedivan]

Im not sure wiki it would refer only to Wikipedia though , as many things have their own wikis.

[sonicwind]

I "Google" everything. :cool: