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Ask HN: Will LLMs Replace "Google" as Our Default Search Verb?

4•arkj•6mo ago
Ask HN: Will LLMs Replace "Google" as Our Default Search Verb?

It took Google a decade to become a verb. As for LLMs, it's not even 3 years since the big bang, but it's begging for a new verb. Here are some sentences; which ones look natural to the community?

She ChatGPTed the quarterly report. He Geminied through legal jargon. They Llamafied raw research papers. We DeepSeeked for hidden equations. The code was Clauded for a poetic touch. Colorless green ideas Grokked furiously.

What does the HN community think? Will LLMs replace Google as our default verb, or will we see a different pattern emerge? Personally, I feel Grok got the name right for a verb.

Note: In my own time tracking, last week I spent 22h 25m in the browser, of which I spent 2h 7m with LLMs (mostly ChatGPT) and only 33m on Google. Often, it feels like an axiom: the clarity of the answer is proportional to the clarity of the question.

Comments

wannabebarista•6mo ago
I think so, but it may not take the form of "Googling". My undergraduate students (mostly first-year CS students) often say they "asked a model" or "asked a chatbot". They talked about it more like they were talking to a person rather than submitting a query. We may not need name for the former like we did the latter.
rvz•6mo ago
No.
Suppafly•6mo ago
Probably not anytime soon, LLMs are pretty shit for googling. I doubt the new verb will be anything we can even guess at this point.

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