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 Message 187 
 August Abolins to Jay Harris 
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 20 Sep 21 19:18:00 
 
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Hello Jay Harris!

** On Monday 20.09.21 - 12:09, Jay Harris wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Is there a verb for DDGing?  The google version sounds so
 AA>> silly when I hear people saying that one.

 JH> Outside of "tech" people, I don't know that very many know
 JH> what Duck Duck Go is.  I've tried it a couple of times and
 JH> always ended up going back to Google.

I seem to go back to Google too.  But I resent it when people  
suggest that I "google for it" when I need to research a book  
title.  I have fine industry tools for book searches; I don't  
*need* to google it.  But sometimes Google is the one I need to  
use inorder to get closer to the results that people remember  
seeing when they used Google - especially give me the wrong  
title or can't spell the author's name correctly. Google seems  
to do a good job at guessing what that correct spelling might  
be.

 JH> Maybe they could shorten it to just "Duck" and then you
 JH> can start saying "Let me Duck that"?

Hey.. I like that.  Easier than "Let me dee dee gee that".




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