Definitely just saw a written comment where someone used "Google" to mean search but then specified a different site to search on.
@levisan I think that isn't far off it's usage where it's become so mainstream, use, embedded that it's become multi-use like a brand that means what it was first known for or broke through the market with / monopolised... for example "Can you Hoover than for me?" where Hoover (Vaccum) is similar to saying Google (Search)
Did I get a trophy for that 🏆 :D 🏆 ?
@freeschool I agree that it isn't too far off (same with Zipper and Elevator) but I think in this case it isn't fair. A non-Hoover vaccum does the job of a Hoover, but a non-Google search engine isn't going to give the same results, so I think one should be specific about which search they want.
@levisan In the world of general use and how big Google it's got, for many people it's Euphemism or substitute so while not strictly true (you're right) for them and for many it works and isn't needed to be precise as they are not in deep into these fields to differentiate even in a grammatically wrong sentence or use. Main thing is that they know know between them what they mean or get it across well enough on that level..,. by the way, what do you use? Have you tried SearX ==> searx.org/ ?
@freeschool I set my default to DuckDuckGo because I like their "bangs" but SearX comes up with good results quite often
@levisan Yep SearX.org for the way...
and as usual I don't value search engines by results only, but by the way it gets results done as a bit more of a priority
(i.e. If searx.org is nicer to world then I don't mind scrolling longer to find exactly what I want, versus Google predicting what I wanted using unwanted ways)...
The longer way or taking high road is worth the reasoning.