Ironically this is a bad thing for Google from a legal standpoint. If a term becomes "genericized" then it can lose trademark protection.

"Aspirin" is a famous example. It used to be a brand name for acetylsalicylic acid medication, but became such a common way to refer to it that in the US any company can now use it.

I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".

Yeah, I don't feel the need to have conversations go on a tangent about explaining what Kagi is

Yes, it’s like Xerox or Kleenex except it’s actually still a monopoly. In a happy Kagi user but I know hardly anyone else is.

I used to. Even when I actually used DDG. Now that I use Kagi (and thus am on the second web search service after I stopped using Google) it started to feel silly so I say "search the web" these days.

Yes, but more in the past than now, simply because almost everybody seems to use google itself.

For example I'd hear people say "I'll Google that", then use Yahoo when they were still a major search engine.

nope, i say “i’m going to search for XYZ” or similar

Now my family usually says "I'm going to ask AI."

yes, me

> Does anyone else use the phrase "I'm going to google XYZ" while referring to actually searching it up on Kagi, DDG, or another search engine?

Not me. I only use Google.

Never used Kagi or DDG. Don’t care enough.