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

4 points by geekam 12y ago

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?

jordanpg 12y 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.
PaulHoule 12y ago
Docs: switch to Office 365
- melling 12y ago
  Yeah, switch to the company that has locked the world into their proprietary format for the last 2 decades.
  - bluerail 12y ago
    They realized it (though its late) and slowly moving away from their Use all MS or Use none MS policy.
    - melling 12y ago
      They only realize it when they have to because the market forces them to be open. Microsoft is not going to open up and support a good open document standard.
bluerail 12y 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 12y 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.