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I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant becaus
by zbruhnke 8y ago
I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem
- joemi 8y agoI think the main motivation for a search company to go and build an email service (or an entire Google Apps competitor) would be the same reason Google did it... to mine user data. So to that end I don't think it really makes sense for DDG to do such a thing.
- nerfhammer 8y agoI think they did it because existing alternatives were terrible
- josteink 8y agoI don’t use Gmail. FastMail works nicely for me, with no google-login required. Don’t see why DDG (a search engine) should run an email-service, nor vica-verse really.
- spurgu 8y agoIf you want to control all the world's data...
- ethagnawl 8y agoI could see Proton* making this play.
- jonas21 8y agoHow would that work? Surely they'd need to index your documents and emails so you could search over them. And I think many DDG users would find that pretty unappealing.
- jlarocco 8y agoThere's no need for that, and no reason a search engine company should provide those things. There are already alternatives for every Google product, most of them objectively better. The only thing keeping you locked into Google is you.
- groovybits 8y ago> I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor That sounds like it violates the nature in which DDG wishes to brand itself. It seems DDG does not want to be the next centralized data platform (this kills their brand of privacy). The one product they already provide - search - is often times not better than Google results. They rather let you choose which search provider you want to use with their bangs system. > as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant I know Gsuite exists, but I have personally seen more instances of Office 365 than Gsuite for business in the wild. Not that Microsoft is any more privacy-friendly... just saying that I don't believe Google dominates business email.
- JohnFen 8y agoMy workplace uses Google's stuff, unfortunately. However that's only for work stuff. I don't use any Google services for my own purposes. If DDG implemented their own set of apps, I wouldn't object -- but it wouldn't be anything that I'd actually use, either.
- thekyle 8y agoFor a while, DDG offered a free Jabber provider which lots of people hoped would do to XMPP what Gmail did to Email but they shut it down.