Back before Google was huge, no-one used any of the other popular search engine names as a synonym for 'searched the world wide web'. We didn't say "I Yahoo!'d for recipes", or "I Excited the latest film releases". We can go back.
The point isn’t that we can’t use generic adverbs. It’s that DDG’s name makes it unrealistic to use their brand as an adverb, which loses them more exposure.
As I’ve said twice already now: DDG is a shitty name for those of us might want to use the company name as a verb.
My comment is no more profound than that.
I’m not making any comment about social norms. And nor am I saying it’s impossible to describe searching for content online without “verbing” the company name.
I’m just saying DDG is hard to use as a verb.
Edit: I did say “adverb” in my previous comment. Obviously I meant “verb”. My painkillers hadn’t kicked in yet so excuse the faux pas there.
In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG". Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..
https://dgg.gg for those who prefer it better than ddg :)
> In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG"
I use DDG too, but that’s not the point of the original comment.
> Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..
While true, what’s also true is that jingles exist precisely because they are effective messaging. And DDG is missing out on that. Hence the comments about verbing.
