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They have become more an Ad-verb in recent years.

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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

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If I remember right, DuckDuckGo called it ‘ducking’ or ‘duck it’ themselfes.

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“Fuck a guess, Duck it!” “I’m gonna ‘duck out’ for a minute”

“Duck this shit.”

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Duck around and find out!

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Your mom is so fetch

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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.

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I miss the encyclopedia I had growing up. It was huge - like 5 inches thick. It knew everything and never let me down. And there were no ads or cookie banners to click out of.

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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.

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IBM comes to mind

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Intel too

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Ed Zitron has a nice write-up ‘The man who killed Google search’ here.

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I’ve found myself naturally doing this as my disdain for Google grows. I also like the term “query”.

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Fuck google 👍

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allow me to query the information highway

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information _super_highway

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