Dev argues Gemini has achieved nothing like Google's 'google it' cultural moment
signulll · x · 2026-09-27
Developer signulll argues the search-era Google miracle was the product becoming culture—"google it" got ingrained in everyone's psyche—while Gemini has achieved nothing remotely analogous: he has never heard it mentioned in any work or personal conversation. Dashboards aside, he calls this a massive inversion of the search era that should be a top-priority problem.
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