You can stop endorsing and giving Google free advertising by not communicating that you "googled" something.
Some alternate sayings: "I did an internet (or web) search", "I looked up "__𓂏__" online", or if later you find a new search engine that you support, you could use that brand name instead.
search engine
Software (such as Google) that returns websites and other information on the internet in response to a user's query
later
(click next)
de-Google: Reality
How do you feel about this proposed action?
Is it exciting?
Is it too easy?
Does it seem stressful?
Whatever feeling you have, it's real.
This guide is meant to be helpful but ultimately it's up to you to decide what to do with this information:
A braille drawing of a silhouette of a skeleton (seen from the right side) with one arm extended with an emoji of the internet globe floating above its hand. The "next" and "exit" hyperlinks are also hovering above and below the hand.