Ask HN: Have you been able to leave Google's claws altogether?

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by geekam • 12 years ago

4 7 12 years ago

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Here are the services I use/left:

Search: I have started using DDG a lot. Almost 90% of my searches are on DDG except for some rather specific programming or code searches that do not yield useful results.

Email: Still stuck with Google/Gmail even with my personal email. I had signed up for Google apps for my domain when there was a free version and somehow still continuing that.

Docs: Not sure if there is a reasonably competitive product out there

What other services you've been able to leave along with what I mentioned above. Are there any real alternatives?

PaulHoule• 12 years ago

Docs: switch to Office 365

melling2• 12 years ago

Yeah, switch to the company that has locked the world into their proprietary format for the last 2 decades.

bluerail2• 12 years ago

They realized it (though its late) and slowly moving away from their Use all MS or Use none MS policy.

jordanpg• 12 years ago

For day-to-day stuff, it's pretty tough to beat Android's Google account integration out of the box. I don't feel a pressing need to "leave Google's claws". This question would make more sense if there was a more clearly defined, well-motivated goal.

bluerail2• 12 years ago

Irony that I see this question now. I did a month long migration recently to migrate away from all of my Google services to alternate services distributed among.

I started with Chrome to Firefox, followed by Gmail to Outlook, Blogger to Jekyll (i did that before), GDocs to Office Online,

Pending are those Gdrive and GoogleAnalytics which I will probably move away as soon I can find an apt alternative.

logn• 12 years ago

For docs I like EtherCalc, Etherpad, and MediaWiki. At this point, Gmail is all I use of Google and mostly only get spam. My main email is Zimbra which I host myself. For search, I use DDG but I've been meaning to look into YaCy further. And I've not used a smartphone for a couple years now.

Ask HN: Have you been able to leave Google's claws altogether?

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