• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve never heard Google, Uber or Zoom used unless it meant the specific company. “Google” became a verb, but I’ve never heard of someone saying they googled something on DuckDuckGo, for example.

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      9 months ago

      “Google it” means look it up on the Internet. My kids don’t use Chrome, they use Google (probably call it that because it’s the homepage of Chrome).

      I’ve heard people say they’re going to uber home. They sometimes use Lyft.

      And I’ve definitely heard people say they were on a zoom call even when it was Microsoft Teams or Google …what is the Google one called again? I don’t remember anymore because people will say Google zoom call!!

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        9 months ago

        Citing a comment I’ve recently seen, it’s amazing how humanity managed to produce only one generation actually competent with computers.