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I felt the same about Google alternatives up until about 3 months ago. Google's results have been declining in quality for a decade, with much more rapid decli
by enterabdazer 7y ago
I felt the same about Google alternatives up until about 3 months ago. Google's results have been declining in quality for a decade, with much more rapid decline over the past year or three.
Google's results are uglier and blatantly revenue based. They have now lapsed behind DuckDuckGo in usefulness for me. I fall back to Google a few times per week, with inconsistent results when I need a "second opinion."
I'd suggest giving DDG another try.
I plan to remove Google from my life this year, at least as a central dependency. Search is already behind me. Mail, calendars, docs, and drive will be taken care of throughout the year. And my Android phone will be replaced with an iPhone.
- selimthegrim 7y agoEr, who do you think Apple pays for search on iPhones?
- nkingsy 7y agoPretty sure google pays them for search
- israrkhan 7y agoGoogle pays them to be default search engine. Users do have option to switch.
- selimthegrim 7y agoMy bad, thanks for the catch.
- lykr0n 7y agoDone. Let's see how it works out.
- mobilemidget 7y agoGoogle always says x many results and when you click page 5 6 or some it is usually empty... not as many results as displayed on first page
- aquova 7y agoDo you (or anyone else) have any recommendations for an email service? I've cut pretty much everything Google out of my life, minus Gmail, mostly due to not wanting to go through all the trouble of transferring everything over to a service that I end up not liking. I've heard ProtonMail is good, but other than that, I'm not sure.
- dnh44 7y agoMigadu is great because they bill based on emails sent rather than billing by how many accounts or domains you have.
- ReidZB 7y agoI've used Fastmail for many years now, and I have nothing but good things to say about the service. In particular, it's insane how well notifications work in Fastmail, especially compared to Gmail (which I use at work). (Honestly, you'd think Fastmail was the giant multi-billion-dollar super-advanced tech company, if you look at the quality of their email experience vs. Gmail.) However, some folks are a little spooked by the privacy implications of it being ran out of Australia, so be sure to research that if you're interested in Fastmail.
- enterabdazer 7y agoI'm leaning toward Tutanota, but I can't claim to have experience with them yet. Proton has appeared somewhat bumpy to me -- I can't say for sure why, but they give me some spidey tingles. Migrating / transferring is indeed a problem. I would suggest using Google Takeout, their data export tool, and permanently archiving your data with a third party service and / or physical backups. See https://takeout.google.com/ https://takeout.google.com/. You probably won't be able to import into your new provider.
- freediver 7y agoThanks for this, I didn't realize you can actually export all your data from Google.
- gpanders 7y ago