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Am i the only one who thinks that using "Google it" instead of "search it" or "look it up" is problematic? (lemmygrad.ml)
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There are so many search engines out there and even chat bots to get info from. I refuse to let Google monopolize an action.

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

In Russian, it's a generally used term "xerox it" ("отксерить") for when you need to copy some papers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Poland it's called "ksero" all the time even though most people never even heard about the Xerox company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s really interesting actually, funny how languages evolve that way