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Someone said to me yesterday that they were "low-key excited" to see The Odyssey, and I thought, you're 54 and you have never sounded more 54 than you do at this moment.

So am I, I´d gotten my very first PC and the internet connection about 13 years ago, and one of the first things I´d learned was "Google it". I´m old-fashioned anyway, here in Germany almost everybody´s "gendering" now, except for people like me. I´m 55 now, I´d grown up without that nonsense. 😂😂😂

To be fair as I've gotten older I've come to hate google so I'd be fine with dropping using their name as a verb from my vocabulary.

I say duck it. Well, sometimes I say duck.

If we want to get rid of Google from our lives, we need to get rid of it from our language too. Say ‘I’m searching’ rather than ‘I’m Googling’. Language is power

I keep it simple, I'm just searchin

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Idc if i sounds old. Still think we should abandon "Google it" Google is one of the trillion dollar tech companies currently going out of their way to shove ai down our throats and working to increase the government's ability to control the masses. Google hasn't been a relevant search engine in 10

This must be a joke. Must be. A Gen Z plant to make us sound even older.

The ‘new’ way sounds like it was made up by someone who has yet to finish high school - or likely a soon to be dropout.

I sounded old as a kid, and I'm not about to change that now that it's justified

That sounds cool. I’ll write out a notice and make a bunch of copies on my mimeograph machine and pass them out so the word gets around.

They'll have to come up with a new one now that the Grups know about it.

I worked as a contract QA engineer at Microsoft around the time Bing was launched and I actually did get called out for saying "Google it." They really thought Bing would become a thing.

if only Google still worked worth a shit

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why do i have to "it up" thingies?

Me too.

‘Search it. Dammit.’

Ah geez I can't sound like a cowabunga kool kid and more?! Gosh darnnit

What about if you say "Let's ask Jeeves"?

this is fake news. i asked my kid and the preferred vernacular is "i want to rape a dolphin"

I can’t imagine I will ever in my life use the phrase, “search it up”

I'm so old I think saying "Google it" is cringe worthy. I will stick to what's always worked for me, which is politely suggesting a range of Dewey decimal addresses

While I'll grant that the slopification of Google makes, "Google it" obsolete and in need of replacement, "Search it up" is the most stilted bullshit attempt at slang I've ever heard.

I mean, I am old Its what happens when you cant accelerate at 1g in a rocket ship for 10 years

Google, sound me like a twat

I think I will just dry up and blow away...

"makes you sound old"? Really? I know Google doesn't like their name used as a verb but this is some pretty dumb gaslighting lmao

This is an amusing ageist conversation to have but there are other good reasons not to say "google it" www.ddmcd.com/managing-tec...

Don't Just Say "Google It!" Part 2 — www.ddmcd.comBy Dennis D. McDonald This is an update of an article I wrote back in 2019 . If anything, the situation has become even worse. Given the increasing number of possibly fake images and vid...www.ddmcd.com

Why does it have the same number of syllables still tho? Youth’s job is improve stuff. Make search it up 2 syllables or 4 syllables or go home

I like to say 'go fuck yourself'.

Alta Vista that, Mark.

Search it up? Did AI write the article?

I will slap anyone I hear using “search it up” as a serious response.

Yea I'm not saying search it up to anyone ever.

I'll bet nobody fucking says "search it up". And if they do, then they need to be taken out back like old Yeller.

Yeahhhhhh, I will not be saying that, Kinder.

Where did the "Up" come from. Like "Search It" is so neutral. I have definitely said "Hold on, let me run a quick search" before. Why does one need to Search Up? That said, my opinion may be disqualified by the fact that I have with absolute certainty said "Let me do a little google-roo."

NO ONE - and I mean NO ONE - says "search it up".

Paging @gretchenmcculloch.com Is this a regional thing? I have never heard "search it up" before. I asked my 12-year-old if he'd heard it and he looked at me like I was speaking in tongues.

Eh, I still use Kleenex, occasionally tell somebody I'll xerox it for them, and sometimes say I'm gonna tape that show. Googling it is the least of my worries 😄

bing it, zing it, no clip it to the backrooms

“Bing it” makes you sound old and out of touch. “Ba-da-bing it!” makes you sound old but hip, daddy-o.

I’m old enough that this immediately makes me think: “Is that Freedom Rock? Well, search it up, man!”

Anyone who says "Search it up" is a fed.

Motherfucker I sound old because I *am* old.

If you're still googling things in 2026 then enjoy your dumb ai future.

So I shouldn't refer to iphones as "googlanators" then?

I’m kicking you in the balls if you say ‘search it up’ to me.

I don't have an issue with sounding old. But I do have an issue with this company; unlike Amazon, it is nearly impossible to extricate yourself from their grasp so at least we could eliminate them from our language.

I think that's just cycling around to an older usage again. Maybe merging "search" with "look it up".

"Look it up" is right there...

“Search it up”? Fuck you, no. Am 61

Cool up, everybody.

I stopped using the term "google it" when I stopped using Google for my web searches.

If I said search it up I’d sound like a 45 year old trying too hard to be hip with the kids

I will at least settle for "look it up" but search it up is a phrase I have literally never heard before and I worked at a university until very recently.

Someone had an article deadline approaching and they had no idea what to write it about.

I still point to an encyclopedia and say "look it up!"

I’ll just ask the gopher to fetch what I need.

To those of us of a certain age, "search it up" brings to mind a terrible German accent.

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I still say Xerox and Kleenex. I'm fine saying Google it.

Ask Jeeves Yahoo Answers Reddit thread it 😂 AARP online

If I may suggest a compromise

Old eh? Search it up, search it down, search it in, search it out...how about search for it, or more economically, search it

Can I still use my hoover and roller blades?

Google sucks. There is no reason to search on it.

source: the google legal department

If "Google it" makes you sound old then "Search it up" makes you sound stupid.

“Search it up” is what an alien from outer space would say making pancakes, trying to acclimate to earthlings

Me too.

Me, too

What the fuck is wrong with "I looked it up in the encyclopedia"?

In the same way that calling someone a "pill" made you sound old when everyone else was saying "buzzkill".

Hit up Netscape

All the cool kids are saying "search it up "

Google it would be okay if Google actually gave us good results. Google pushes whoever is giving them money. I get so frustrated with trying to find stuff when Google won't show me what I want.

"Bing it, baby", said with a wink and a single finger gun.

Oh my god, I thought this was just something my 9-year old said, not knowing any better. I had no idea it was a whole thing!

"Search it up" just makes you sound stupid, not young.

Sounds dutch

I've stopped saying it because I don't use Google anymore. They don't deserve to be genericized.

Search it up, fellow kids

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Steve Balmer wanted "squirt a song" to describe Zune file sharing. You don't need to surrender your language use to tech bros. 🤷‍♂️

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I'm okay sounding old, but I'm not okay with using Google.

"I'll ask the internet" thank you

Google doesn't even work anymore, old man

Telling someone to use their Google machine rolls off the tongue much easier than use your search it up machine

How about "Fetch" it?

I can't even imagine how exhausting it must be to be in constant dogged pursuit of society's approval.

Search it up? Never heard that in my life and my kids are 19 and 23. Are they too old, too?

Cowabunga, Search it up my dude!

"Google it" has been cringe since they rescinded their "do no evil" policy.

DuckDuckGo it is awkward.

JFGI.

I'm going to keep using Google as a verb and general term for a similar tool, because fuck their trademark.

The only socially acceptable time to say "search it up" is when you've had one too many drinks, imo

Search it up sounds stupid

It's actually "ask ChatGPT" now.

Three years ago I gave my nice a dictionary for Christmas and taught her how to use it. Whenever she asks about anything I tell her to use her dictionary to find out. Lesson of the story: you could sound much older.

🙄

IDK, "search it up" sounds like a old's attempt to sound current and hip

I’m over here asking Jeeves

"Ask The Google" brings ancient misspeak into the Claudeosphere of pseudo companion/oracle on drugs Oracle's been inhaling for a looong time

My kids—young adults—have been saying this since elementary school. We've had many conversations about it. I always hear it in my then 1st-grader's voice asking me to "search up" something that does not have a google-able answer.

And "Bing it" is still good for a laugh.

Did Google's Branding team come up with this? Remember when Velcro went all in on protecting their brand and everyone started saying "Hook and loop fasteners" no? yeah it's "google" even if i used Duck duck Go

Buffy the vampire slayer invented googling as a verb. Search it up.

I say "Google it" but I never used Google. (DuckDuckGo instead, for privacy)

Metacrawler that shit.

I'm 100% certain that the author of that article said "search it up" once, people laughed at them for it, and now they're bound and determined to make it a thing.

About two weeks ago I told a troll to Google it, but then added “P.S. - Actually use DuckDuckGo it’s a better search engine”. Because i’m nice.

Bunch of people arguing about how old they sound. You all sound 15 years old to me.

If you hear me say “search it up” just assume I’ve been busted for a serious crime and am now a confidential informant.

I feel old and I am old.

I will just start saying "go to the damn library" just to piss people like that article's author off.

I'm even more fine with being old.

Whatever. It’s not like I’m aging in reverse.

I just don't use Google anymore because I don't think it is a good search engine now. So, I just say "search it". I will never say "up" after that though

"Webcrawl" (no object needed) is the obvious preferred idiom, especially with a new Spiderman movie about to drop. Implies the abjection that inheres in all web searches.

I am old.🤷‍♀️

Search it up where? On Google?

Instead of saying "I asked ChatGPT," you can say "I poisoned Memphis."

Bing it

“DuckDuck, go look it up” lol

The most old person thing a person could do is read an article like this and then actually do what it says.

Some would say being old is Goated.

"Bing it!" didn't catch on?

FrogFind it!

kids these days don’t even know how to key word search so they can get fucked for all I care. I shouldn’t have to write a paragraph to get accurate search results! yes, I am old I guess lol

If you really wanna get with the times just confidently assert stuff without ever looking anything up

Bing it! Gen Z will get mad at you for it being too soon for a Friends reference.

And here I am still saying "go to the library."

Always used 'searched' because Google is a company...I've never hoovered the carpet, either, however I do call all cotton swabs q-tips

I think the sociolinguistic mistake is believing that a jargon is simply 'current' rather than primarily meant to be addressed to fellow in-groupers.

Heaven forbid I present as I actually am.

Bing it youtu.be/nfHuZ5qrYX4?...

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Wait, we say 'search it up' as a joke for how toddlers don't understand syntax

I’m going to go old-old school and say “Netscape it” just to see what people say ha!

In fairness, Google has become such a terrible place to search for things, I find myself saying "Google it" less and less...

Motherfucker probably still wears shoes with hook and loop enclosures.

This is literally the first time I've heard the term "Search it Up" why does this feel like guerrilla marketing for something?

Fuck you, punk...Google it.

Kids saying "Suck it up" instead of "hoover"

I just say "search for" because I really can't recommend Google to anyone at this point. I've never heard anyone say "search it up" though.

I like term "search it up" much better, but that's just me.

Or "my guy" ew. 🤬

There’s progress and then theres sheer stupidity…IMO! 🤦🏾‍♀️

Cronehood and proud of it, words come and go, but we old people are still groovy

I say "Give it a Goog" which I got from Chelsea Peretti I think. Makes me sound a little off rather than just old.

Saying “Google it” makes it sound like Google has a monopoly on search. That would be *so wrong*!

Me, too.

I’m semi-proud that my pedantic, decades-long refusal to use “Google” as a verb has now come full circle in the vernacular.

I still refuse to say "Google it" because it sounds too new and slang-y for me.

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I sound old because.. I *am*

I'll Xerox that ...

As an old, I'd like to not be told how to talk. What words to choose.

Reading the NY Times makes you sound old. I have an onion tied to my belt.

Saying "search it up" feels like I'm about to break into a white dad rap about surfing the world wide web.

I’ll call it whatever the fuck I want to. I don’t give a shit about this clown’s rebranding dreams.

‘Search it up’ sounds insanely old-timey

it dosnt make people sound old. it makes them sound down with cyberpunk dystopian hellscapes without the perks of the cool gadgets.

Reminds me of this, which I suspect was as off the mark then as this headline is now. youtu.be/-tjC76Ah2aE?...

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I just say “look it up” b/c I think we should stop normalizing Google as as a helpful resource rather than an evil corporate overlord that supports oligarchy

I'm actually "look it up in the Britannica" years old

kick it to Kagi

"Search it forth" M. F. K. Fisher-style.

I like it because it's a subtle reminder that we could look things up before AI.

"I don't know. Let's KGB it." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUL...

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Bing it on.

Wanna sound really ancient. Quote Casey Stengel like I do.

Bluesky needs an On fleek button for posts this good.

That’s bomb

I shall consult the oracle!

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I prefer not to use the name of an evil giant corporation as a verb to describe an everyday action that other companies also support. I am, on the other hand, happy to use "google" to mean making something worse, since that is what they truly excel at. "Wow, you really googled that job."

"Search it up" for the "utes"

Ditto. "Search it up" where? Google that.

I'mma duckduckgo find that answer

Duck duck went

I’ve ‘served up’ but I’ve never ‘searched up.’

I say Google it up

I want to dropkick my own child when they say “search it up”

Search it up is literally something my 79 year old father says.

What if I say ask the duck?

no one I know actually says "search it up" which makes me wonder what homunculi does the author communicate with to reach that conclusion

I've learned from my niece that replying to a text using 'ok' is wrong and makes me sound old. So really. Fuck it.

If you're using that phrase you're probably GenX. And GenX does not care if it sounds old.

If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure that if "Google/Googling" becomes widely enough used to refer to searching things no matter what the browser or engine, a legal case can me made that will make "Google/Googling" regular words that can't be trademarked or copyrighted

I tell people to Ask Jeeves