Bing powers Yahoo! by contract, and Google sometimes powers Bing not by contract.
Bing also utilizes Wolfram Alpha as partners.
You can just change that in Settings ( below, not Advanced Settings, and not requiring signing in ) = Never Show Instant Results.
And for good measure turn off Private Results if you don’t want personalization ( which I do to the extent by forcing google.com instead of google.uk and removing all forms of localization ).
“Google it” has been a generic term for “look it up.” So it’s part of the lexicon, and not likely to go away.
Where in Canada are you? That might be a regionalism as everywhere I’ve lived in Canada they call any brand of ASA ‘aspirin’. Heck, a number of people (myself included) call any of the common headache medications (ibuprofen, aetaminophen, etc) aspirin in casual conversation.
I assume you’re referring to 3.5 inch disks as opposed to 5.25 inch ones. Those are both floppy disks because the actual part being written to is floppy. The thing inside those two disks was basically the same, the smaller one just had a hard shell. A hard disk, the kind inside your computer, is called a hard disk because the platters are hard.
I suspect you know this, but it’s a common misunderstanding.
That would be a bit different, though, since those words are about specific things. People nowadays might not know what a duck tail or Edsel was but that’s because they’re not around anymore. If Google isn’t around in 50 years, we’ll probably still be searching the internet. The question is, we’ll we still call it Googling? It’s more akin to asking if facial tissues will still be called Kleenex in 50 years if Kimberly-Clark closed up shop today and held on to the name so no one ever actually saw the word Kleenex on store shelves again.
I know it’s a slightly different example, because it’s not a brand name, but one example I have always found interesting is “tin foil.” Aluminum foil has been around since 1926 and as far as I know basically replaced tin foil since some time before my childhood (I’m 50). Yet, I still here people younger than I am calling it “tin foil.” It baffles me how that name has stuck. We all use aluminum foil, and I get that it has three extra syllables, but I find it strange that people who NEVER really used foil made of tin are calling it tin foil.
People might say aspirin up here, but you certainly won’t find that word on a box unless it is from Bayer.
I know I am only one person and different people (particularly in different areas) have different habits for naming things, but I would never say aspirin when I meant ibuprofen or acetaminophen and I would definitely not use the wrong name if somebody wanted something for their discomfort (I would say something like “I don’t have any Aspirin, but I can give you an Ibuprofen”). Seems to me people are more likely to use a trademark corresponding to the correct product even if they are using a generic product, e.g. Tylenol for acetaminophen, Advil for ibuprofen, etc.
I’d say it depends on if Google merely “goes away”—somehow goes out of business, gets pushed out in market share, etc.—or if it’s made radically obsolete by some new search system.
I mean, say search engine fnord.com comes out, where you can input the most vague, hazy, natural-language query possible—“What was this movie I saw once, it started off with these medieval guys walking in the desert…”—and it somehow came up with the answer you were looking for 99.5% of the time, “fnord it” might supplant “Google it” in the vernacular.
It will stay in the language at least as long as it stays on their search page. I can’t imagine the world-wide momentary anxiety if one day their search page came up saying Alphabet. 
It is disturbing to think about. And I use DuckDuckGo as a search engine. Though I use Google for calendar, contacts, etc.
True but, as you won’t find Kleenex on a box of Royale, I was under the assumption that we were speaking of casual speech and not product labeling.
I would agree with the clarification before giving medication but was speaking more of the asking for such (depending on context). I will ask my wife where the aspirin is even though I am quite aware that we are an ibuprofen household. I will put aspirin on the shopping list even though I am going to buy ibuprofen. I will ask if anyone has aspirin when I have a headache. If someone asks that question of me I would specify, as you would, in my reply that there is Tylenol in the cupboard.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone who does that. I also don’t know anyone who is a single analgesic household. I know people who don’t use aspirin, but no one who just uses tylenol or ibuprofen.
(Tylenol is intentionally in lowercase.)
I wonder if the diminutive “fridge” is from refrigerator or Frigidaire. Which reminds me- the boss put a sign up on the refrigerator at work telling everyone to remove their stuff on Friday so he could clean the “frig”. I told him to look that up
I used to know this woman whose grandfather tried to launch a new brand of tissue paper. He told her many times to ask for his brand by name whenever she happened to be in a store or at her friends’ houses, it was very important. Um, it turned out to be a smokescreen for his counterfeiting operation.
Hey, you do NOT want the boss having a dirty frig at the office!
“Xerox” is going away as a generic term. Despite Xerox still being around and making quite a few copiers. For a long time there wasn’t a succinct suitable substitute, such as it were. “Photocopier” was just too much. What has happened is that “copy” as in “copy this report” now works since other ways of copying paper documents has faded.
In order for “google” to fade, whether Google goes away or not, is for a terrific terse term to become commonplace to replace it. Something on the order of “lookup” where the ambiguity is small.
Alternatively, it was because it was originally hard wired into the computer.
There were (I assume still are) removable hard disks. I fondly remember the 88 MB multi-platter drives that I used to use. They looked a bit like a cake container; you screwed them into the drive which simultaneously released the cover so you could remove it.
And you all really, really annoy me. I don’t take acetaminophen and ibuprofen doesn’t work on my headaches, that’s why I asked for “aspirin” and not “something for a headache”.
But there is always someone who insists they have aspirin, runs up three flights of stairs and across the building to get it, and then gets offended when I won’t take the Advil or Motrin or Tylenol they bring back.
ETA: “Xerox” is not in common use anymore.
Because “aluminum foil hat” doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi.
Actually, Google, Inc. is a private intelligence gathering and data aggregating organization which has cleverly offered Internet services as a way of getting users to give up a multitude of personal information freely and often without even being conscious of it. The colloquial meaning of “google” will eventually change from “Internet search” to "complete loss of privacy and anonymity, just as “facebook” will become “My parents/employeer/spouse/prosecutor discovered this embarrassing thing that I was too stupid to not post on the Internet,” and “tinder” will come to mean “Got an STD from some random stranger on the Internet”.
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Yes, eventually there came removable ones. And there are obviously removable hard disks still, google USB hard drive and you’ll find more than you can shake a stick at.