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Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.

by mcav 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago
second that. Microsoft only during compatibility testing. Google search, I'd hate to count how many times every day. Other than that, analytics and adsense.
- sachinag 17y ago
  AdSense is a toughie. Yahoo has a competitive analytics package (http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/ http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/), and really, Bing results are generally just fine. Sure, it'd be harder, but that's the point of the experiment.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    That's why I try to keep our dependence on adsense to a minimum.
bootload 17y ago
"... Challenge for November: No Google Software. ..." That is a challenge. My blog is on appengine, I prototype appengine, groups, search. Have to think about that one.
lamnk 17y ago
Search: I can use Bing or Yahoo, no problem here. Mail: gmail is integrated deeply into my workflow. Hard to live without it. Money: Adsense pays for my hosting bill so can't drop them, besides there is no worthy competitor with Adsense (for small blogs) Analytics: Google's product is great and free but i would be very happy to try some alternative. Docs: don't use google docs a lot. Not important. Calendar: I have too few plans/appointments so a calendar is useless :-p
- patio11 17y ago
  I can use Bing or Yahoo, no problem here. I tried using Bing for a month. I lasted about 48 hours. One problem was that Google dominates Bing for technical searches and searches in Japanese, both of which are sort of important to me. A bigger problem was that my fingers will type www.google.com into my URL bar without me even asking them to any time I have a question about something. (In browser search box, what's that? I'm stuck in my ways...) The only way I could have overcome this habit would have been using my hosts file to redirect google.com to a Bing server, and I was worried that would lock me out of the Google services I need to run my business.
  - drats 17y ago
    I am using ctrl+l on chrome, so 2 keystrokes to get to a search 73,000 key presses (asides from search terms + enter) if I am doing 10 searches a day for 10 years. If you are using the mouse to get to the location bar that's an insane time delay, but if you are using ctrl+l then typing "www.google.com" you are at something like 584,000 over the same 10 per day for 10 years period. That's an entire novel of "www.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.com", plus the time spent typing and the time for the extra unneeded page load. Think hard about changing to ctrl+k on firefox or ctrl+l on chrome (or ctrl+l plus "g" hotword on firefox if you got rid of the searchbar).
    - FreeRadical 17y ago
      the dropdown suggestion bar will reduce the 584,000 somewhat
- aaronblohowiak 17y ago
  Y!'s analytics are neat.
- netsp 17y ago
  Makes you wonder what is easy to change. Apart from search, it's all difficult to swap over. In many ways, more difficult then office software or even an OS. We're getting there.
reg4c 17y ago
MS is not a problem. I rarely use it now but Google I could not avoid. Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Docs etc etc etc

Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.

by mcav 17y ago

Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.

second that. Microsoft only during compatibility testing. Google search, I'd hate to count how many times every day. Other than that, analytics and adsense.

sachinag 17y ago
AdSense is a toughie. Yahoo has a competitive analytics package (http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/ http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/), and really, Bing results are generally just fine. Sure, it'd be harder, but that's the point of the experiment.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  That's why I try to keep our dependence on adsense to a minimum.

bootload 17y ago

"... Challenge for November: No Google Software. ..." That is a challenge. My blog is on appengine, I prototype appengine, groups, search. Have to think about that one.

lamnk 17y ago

Search: I can use Bing or Yahoo, no problem here. Mail: gmail is integrated deeply into my workflow. Hard to live without it. Money: Adsense pays for my hosting bill so can't drop them, besides there is no worthy competitor with Adsense (for small blogs) Analytics: Google's product is great and free but i would be very happy to try some alternative. Docs: don't use google docs a lot. Not important. Calendar: I have too few plans/appointments so a calendar is useless :-p

patio11 17y ago
I can use Bing or Yahoo, no problem here. I tried using Bing for a month. I lasted about 48 hours. One problem was that Google dominates Bing for technical searches and searches in Japanese, both of which are sort of important to me. A bigger problem was that my fingers will type www.google.com into my URL bar without me even asking them to any time I have a question about something. (In browser search box, what's that? I'm stuck in my ways...) The only way I could have overcome this habit would have been using my hosts file to redirect google.com to a Bing server, and I was worried that would lock me out of the Google services I need to run my business.
- drats 17y ago
  I am using ctrl+l on chrome, so 2 keystrokes to get to a search 73,000 key presses (asides from search terms + enter) if I am doing 10 searches a day for 10 years. If you are using the mouse to get to the location bar that's an insane time delay, but if you are using ctrl+l then typing "www.google.com" you are at something like 584,000 over the same 10 per day for 10 years period. That's an entire novel of "www.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.comwww.google.com", plus the time spent typing and the time for the extra unneeded page load. Think hard about changing to ctrl+k on firefox or ctrl+l on chrome (or ctrl+l plus "g" hotword on firefox if you got rid of the searchbar).
  - FreeRadical 17y ago
    the dropdown suggestion bar will reduce the 584,000 somewhat
aaronblohowiak 17y ago
Y!'s analytics are neat.
netsp 17y ago
Makes you wonder what is easy to change. Apart from search, it's all difficult to swap over. In many ways, more difficult then office software or even an OS. We're getting there.

reg4c 17y ago

MS is not a problem. I rarely use it now but Google I could not avoid. Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Docs etc etc etc