They have become more an Ad-verb in recent years.
My mom started hating the Ai features. she’s trying to make “duck duck going” a thing.
It’s never gonna happen but applaud the effort lol
If I remember right, DuckDuckGo called it ‘ducking’ or ‘duck it’ themselfes.
“Fuck a guess, Duck it!” “I’m gonna ‘duck out’ for a minute”
“Duck this shit.”
Natural consequence of 1) google being shit, and 2) “looking something up” and similar phrases automatically meaning the internet. No one is going to assume the library anymore.
They went from a great tech shop where engineering excellence was the main driver to a strictly ad business the moment MBAs took over. Story as old as SV capitalism. They did the same to Boeing, HP and many others.
I’ve found myself naturally doing this as my disdain for Google grows. I also like the term “query”.