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		wepple on Sept 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo Traffic I wonder if we can’t just all move toward “search”. It’s usually obvious from context, and with more and more search engines (whether they be whole-web or isolated to a given social network), it seems like a viable alternative.

sudojudo on Sept 30, 2018 [–]

I'd rephrase that as moving back toward search.

Google wasn't always there, and even after it became popular, some time passed before the name was used as a verb.

Personally, I Ask Jeeves to Lycos it.

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