Veronica ExplainsMotion to strike "googling" as a verb
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
Brooke Vibber 
@veronica time to go back to opendirectory
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Wizard of Sencha ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ต@veronica motion granted!
Rob Connolly ๐ณ๐ฟ ๐ฌ๐ง@veronica Motion carried.
SnoopJ (IS IN San Francisco)@veronica @RachelThornSub I replaced it with "web searching" in my own speech some years ago and do not regret the effort it did need to unlearn.
Prof. Rachel Thorn ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธ
diana
Heidi Li Feldman@veronica Yes! We need a good substitute. @StaceyCornelius
Dane ๐๐โ๏ธโฎ๏ธโ๏ธโธ๏ธ๐๏ธ@veronica I use a combination of Startpage and Kagi. Couldn't be happier.
notorious rgb@veronica the enshitification will continue until moral improves
Parttimesailor@veronica I say โkeep the verbโ but change the meaning to some stupid or worthless.
Bob K Mertz 
disorderlyf@veronica I've been trying to fight the habit and just call it "searching" and saying "use your search engine of choice" instead of "use Google". You'd think it'd be easier after dropping Google in 2019, but I think being tired of fighting the people still using Google hasn't helped.
EyeSame here. I've told people to "go search it" and they've understood.
Pete's Mom ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ โฎ๏ธ@veronica
When I hear "googling" I immediately think of garbage in/garbage out. I think its a helpful term, the meaning has just shifted dramatically.
When I hear "googling" I immediately think of garbage in/garbage out. I think its a helpful term, the meaning has just shifted dramatically.
Norman Wilson
Come On Giant Asteroid!They shoulda left out โSearchโ from that headline.
Hope they don't break udm14.org โฆ results there are still usually better than Duck Duck Bing.
River, Cachorrรญn de Los AndesLooks promising - thanks!
Robert Klaschka@veronica in our house the kids say they are going to "search it up", to which I repeatedly have to reply "its look it up" - drives me nuts.
Faraiwe
Fahri Reza ๐duckling from duck duck go?
Dr Ro Smith@veronica Yeah, I went back to just saying 'doing a search' a year or so ago.
Duke
derptron
machenni
Richter
Anonax
cynical melomaniac 
@veronica Aye! โ๏ธ
Michal
Johnno
Carl
Peter@veronica good news! kids don't say "google" anymore, they say "search up"... "let me search that up for you" etc.
Tomรกลก F.
intrustive_thoughts_librarian@veronica I tell everyone to bing it and wait....
kjaerulv
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@veronica Personally I've only used "googling" sarcastically for several years at this point... so yes.
Renke Meuwese@veronica honestly, for me that has already happened. It took me a minute to even understand https://xkcd.com/3245/, and the reason was simply that I had no idea what Randalph meant by "Google".
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Fabio G.
Bowreality ๐จ๐ฆ๐@veronica I go out of my way not to use โgoogleโ as a verb for a while now
Wilson
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