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

4 pointsby geekamover 10 years ago
Here are the services I use&#x2F;left:<p>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.<p>Email: Still stuck with Google&#x2F;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.<p>Docs: Not sure if there is a reasonably competitive product out there<p>What other services you&#x27;ve been able to leave along with what I mentioned above. Are there any real alternatives?

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bluerailover 10 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.<p>I started with Chrome to Firefox, followed by Gmail to Outlook, Blogger to Jekyll (i did that before), GDocs to Office Online,<p>Pending are those Gdrive and GoogleAnalytics which I will probably move away as soon I can find an apt alternative.
lognover 10 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&#x27;ve been meaning to look into YaCy further. And I&#x27;ve not used a smartphone for a couple years now.
jordanpgover 10 years ago
For day-to-day stuff, it&#x27;s pretty tough to beat Android&#x27;s Google account integration out of the box. I don&#x27;t feel a pressing need to &quot;leave Google&#x27;s claws&quot;. This question would make more sense if there was a more clearly defined, well-motivated goal.
PaulHouleover 10 years ago
Docs: switch to Office 365
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