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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

[Caption below the panel]
Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)

made with this neat tool

    • Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Googol is a hitten for great quantities, it worked great as a word, and it would be great if Google lost it as a trademark. However we have the force to seed a new word that has a similar image.

      If the internet was an ocean of content, then we could say “let’s ocean it”. Ocean as a verb makes as much sense as the verb google.

    • onnekas@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      15 hours ago

      I started replacing “to google sth.” with " to search sth." since I use several search engines besides google and for some of them using the brand name is just ridiculous.

      “Let me DuckDuckGo that real quick!” quack

    • onnekas@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      19 hours ago

      I’ve heard people referring to the internal search function of a program as “google”.

      One time someone wanted to use “find and replace” in VsCode and he just said “I google the word and replace it”.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.world
      41·
      22 hours ago

      Oh, that’s a funny one. Google didn’t want you to use that either, as they almost lost right to their own name copyright (or they did? Can’t remember) due to it becoming common word xD