Yes.

I think it's a verb now whether we like it or not

I get band aids at the store and kleenex. Not self adhesive medical bandages and tissue paper

I still do sometimes, despite using DDG for about a decade now and working in IT myself. Haven't met anyone who doesn't say it in my area.

Ive been saying “search online” instead

I primarily use DDG, but the vast majority of people I talk to (including other tech savvy people) use Google. I feel like "search" is too generic (search where?), but "search the internet" is weird. And saying "Bing it" or "Duck it" or whatever just sounds overly contrarian. But if I say "Google it", people know exactly what I mean.

So yes, I will "Google where to buy some bandaids" by searching DDG for adhesive bandages.

Yes, same way i say i need a "Kleenex" to open the door to the "Porta potty" so i don't have to shit in the "dumpster".

I use duckduckgo.

I want "duck it" to become a thing.

Everyone knows what is meant by "Google it" even though there are other options now.

It's like when I ask you for a Kleenex or Band Aid and many other brand and product names that became a synonym for the generic product in general.

I tell people to altavista it

I even google on DuckDuckGo. The more we use googling to mean "to search on the web" the more likely it is that Google will lose their trademark at some point.

I've been trying to say "search online" or "websearch" for the past year or two.

Now that you've got me thinking about this, I wonder if there are any journalist style guides that cover this. That's often an interesting reference point for what people are saying versus an attempt at more objective way.

I feel like "google it" has become a shorter version of "look it up online" and can be used, regardless of the search engine

Me, all over this thread:

It is weird to observe younger generations using search engines with how they treat them as some sort of fully natural language processing butlers.

Where you or I might formulate a query as: "films famous within Italy" or simply "famous Italian films"

Gen alpha will generally conduct that same search as: "What are the movies that are most famous in Italy?"

A friend and I usually call it "duck it" or "ducking it" when talking to each other. To others it's "googling".

Fun side note: Someone here on lemmy a while back was having a fit about something I said because it was from one of Google services, and while he's right that Google is evil and invasive and all that I had to chuckle when they told me to Google one specific thing on the matter. "Don't use Google, Google it for more info."

I still ask Jeeves. He gave me his personal number before the site shut down.

I say "look it up". Applies to lots of forms of search, be it google, DDG, YouTube, Wikipedia, a dictionary, a manual, pretty much anything.

Well, it sounds better than "Bing it".

Yeah, alot of people still do. I still use "search it online" though.

eyup. I do and others have used it with me. in my defense, duck duck go it is a mouthful.

I do even though I don't use them, because I want them to lose copyright of the name. that would be funny I think.

I usually will say something along the lines of "look it up" or "I can look it up"

Yes but I've been trying to change it since using ddg. Then again the other person will probably use Google so it doesn't matter.

Consistently. They even use the let me google it for you website, even though Google hasn't looked like that for a while now.

I am particularly cautious with my words, so I'll say search for it on the web and when talking about my own research, I'll talk about what I was able to find via a simple websearch.

Sadly, fewer and fewer things are readily available via a simple websearch anymore, and I have to engage in sophisticated websearches in which I rotate keywords or key phrases and their synonyms.

I often still do. In japanese, google even became its own verb (possibly because it works phonetically and syntactically) both as google-suru and google-ru　(グーグル)

I recently heard someone say that you can 'google the show name on apple tv'

Google has become a verb and we're not getting rid of it any time soon.

That or some iteration of "search it". Interesting that I see a lot of people emphasizing the "online" here but that seems so implied to me that I don't usually include it, and I am not young. Not sure what to think of that.

Naw, it's Do your own research now /s

I still hear people say it, but I won't.

Google's service is so abominably enshittified now that if you're not using udm14.com, there's really no point.