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chompyesterday at 8:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.


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pachouli-pleaseyesterday at 8:53 PM

I quietly like it because it erodes a company's ability to strong-arm via trademarks if it's part of common parlance.

newsomix9xlyesterday at 9:11 PM

Maybe "google it" can refer to the uglified nature of English usage by conflating an activity with a morally ambiguous entity who eventually and inevitably enshittifies it.

So yeah, it got Googled.