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I have a question. Fortunately, I can use Google to find the answer.

Question:
How do I say what I'm doing? I say:

Choices:
I google it.
I google it up.
I google [pose] the question and thus google up [bring up] the answer.
I don't google.
Just to be ornery, I select none of the above.

 
 
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I would say "I'm googling it".
 
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Who's the ornery one? Wink

I google, but Shu googles up.
 
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I'd probably use an initial capital letter - "Google it".


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Usually used in the past. I googled it. It's in lowercase, because it's been genericized.


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I have found myself advising customers "You could just google that. Here, let me show you how."

"Google it up" makes sense . . . but it adds extra words that seem unnecessary and it somehow sounds a little naughty to me.


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it somehow sounds a little naughty to me.

CW, is there anything that doesn't sound a little naughty to you? Roll Eyes


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CW, is there anything that doesn't sound a little naughty to you?

. . . . ummm . . . no, wait, gimme a minute . . . I'll think of something . . .


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Ah...but I wonder if any of you "Treo it up." The other night Shu and I were puzzled about something when we were out, and Shu said, "Why don't you Treo it up?"
 
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Is that in reference to a special hand-held computer device?


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Is that in reference to a special hand-held computer device?

Yes. They used to be made by Handspring which got acquired by Palm (makers of the PalmPilot).


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CW, I have the cheaper model. It would be like saying "Blackberry it up...."
 
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I don't care much for 'google it up'; I don't search things up, either.
 
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Indeed. "Google" is used as a synonym for "search", so "search something up" is not used. I "search it", or "search for it". Similarly, I will "Google it", or "Google for it". Note that I prefer to use a capital letter although I suspect that many use the word as a generic term.


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Google it is common in my neck of the woods, Canada plus I have heard it referred to that on a couple of movies lately. As in, I'm going to google it, I googled it, and I'm googling it.

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To be honest, I think Shu is the only person I know who says "Google it up." Everyone else says "Google it." Shu always has been a little weird. Wink

Interestingly, I've not heard "Yahoo it."
 
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I've not heard "Yahoo it."


because Yahoo! is not mainly known for a search engine?
 
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because Yahoo! is not mainly known for a search engine?

Perhaps not now, but a few years ago, before Google's rise, it was the search engine.


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it was also the web mail handler, the web news source, the web groups home, the web gaming community...
 
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Originally posted by Kalleh:
To be honest, I think Shu is the only person I know who says "Google it up." Everyone else says "Google it." Shu always has been a little weird. Wink
A little?

But frankly, I think that a lot of people say "google it up". Should I check that? I suppose someone could LIU. (Or should I say, "Someone could LI"? Wink )
 
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yes, shirley, someone CLIU.

"google it" -up : 4,810,000 gh
"google it up" : 36,100 gh

that's two(2!) orders of magnitude, shirley.
 
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One of my favorite Shuisms is when we go to Panda Express. Everyone else orders a Two-entree plate. Shu orders a "twofer." Razz

On the other hand, I have always irritated my son by calling those Pepperidge Farm cheese blasted fish (or whatever!) that he likes, "Blasters." He asked me to buy Blasters once and then said, "Oh, now you've go me saying it!" Mad
 
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yes, shirley, someone CLIU.

"google it" -up : 4,810,000 gh
"google it up" : 36,100 gh

that's two(2!) orders of magnitude, shirley.
two orders of magnitude? I magna(tud)inously concede.

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One of my favorite Shuisms is when we go to Panda Express. Everyone else orders a Two-entree plate. Shu orders a "twofer." Razz


First of all, ick, Panda Express? I occasionally use the term two-fer. The etymology should be clear as "two for one", and extending from there.
 
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yes, shirley, someone CLIU.

"google it" -up : 4,810,000 gh
"google it up" : 36,100 gh

that's two(2!) orders of magnitude, shirley.


How exactly does one define order of magnitude? According to Wikipedia, it is as I expected, typically meaning 10. X orders of magnitude is then typically around 10^x. Of course, if I have something which is 10, and you have 500, this is half of two orders of magnitude. To complicate matters, if you have 316 to my ten, you have just about exactly 1.5 orders of magnitude more, when this intuitively seems closer to 2 orders than 1.

And one can use different bases for this, to completely confuse me.
 
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First of all, ick, Panda Express?

Sophisticated, we're not. Wink

[Does it help that we never go to McDonald's?]
 
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