I use Startpage.com, similar promise of privacy. But for a verb to describe what I’m doing, I use “to Google”. Google is the Kleenex of search engines.
Or I just wait for someone else to look it up and tell the rest of us. Now that it’s mentioned, I think I do remember that critter, although it’s been a long time.
When the Geech characters look out at the readers, do they think we’re the ones who are blacked out?