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Oh no the neural implant project backfired, I must now spread the logs throughout the building an leave a distress message in Latin (feddit.de)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

just Google/DDG

We really need a generic verb for "searching the Internet" that's not a search engine brand-name.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

"search"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about "search"? Google was originally Google Search.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe, though it could also sound too unspecific, like searching for some physical object.

"To look up" is in use more or less in that sense, actually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Surf the information super highway"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hell yeah :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Query?