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[Yorky]

Google anymore means search on the internet rather you use Google or another search engine.

To fathom this is far beyond my age grade.

 

[Morning Glory]

To fathom this is far beyond my age grade.

I didn't understand either...

 

[Cinisajoy]

I didn't understand either...

Google and Yahoo both words that can be proper names or an action now. Google before 1998 meant to look at something. Now it is either a company, a search engine or a term meaning to look it it up. IE: JFGI. Just f****** google it. But you can use bing or yahoo to google.

 

[Morning Glory]

Google and Yahoo both words that can be proper names or an action now. Google before 1998 meant to look at something. Now it is either a company, a search engine or a term meaning to look it it up. IE: JFGI. Just f****** google it. But you can use bing or yahoo to google.

I thought the term to google came about as a result of Google and did not pre-date it as a word. Shows how much I know!

 

[Morning Glory]

According to the OED the origin of the word (used as a verb) came about due to the Google search engine.

The first recorded usage of google used as a participle, thus supposing an intransitive verb, was on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!"[7]

 

[Cinisajoy]

A googol a google, a gaggle of googoo.

 

[buckytom]

Nicolai?

 

[Yorky]

Happy New Year (Sawasdee Pee Mai) from Nakhorn Nowhere!

 

[epicuric]

Happy New Year (Sawasdee Pee Mai) from Nakhorn Nowhere!

Your boys need a few lessons in car washing. We have it nailed in the UK - it's called taking your car for a Polish! Pre- Brexit of course!

 

[buckytom]

Today's deal at the car wash: the Mary Magdelene special.

They wash your feet along with your car.

(A Holy Thursday joke)

 

[Yorky]

 

[buckytom]

Ah, satisfied customers.

 

[sidevalve]

it's called taking your car for a Polish! Pre- Brexit of course!

Not sure why brexit would make any difference - cars will still get dirty - unless the individuals concerned are illegal immigrants working at a rate below the minimum wage in which case the employer should be fined/closed and they shouldn't be here anyway.
As for a search engine there is Duckduck go which is supposed not to track it's users and there is always the TOR network which [despite the frenzied and paranoid claims of the establishment] is NOT simply a way onto the fabled 'dark web' but a simple way of avoiding being tracked used by thousands of ordinary people who are sick and tired of being treated as criminals and constantly 'snooped' on

 

[MypinchofItaly]

 

[MypinchofItaly]

I can understand your reluctance to use Google, since they have a bad reputation re. privacy. Presumably you use another search engine then?

I use Google a lot....but please.....Google translate....a disaster!