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July 16, 2011 1:09 PM   Subscribe

Google is evil. What are good/Good alternatives to its myriad services?

(... alternatives that are not Microsoft or Yahoo?)

Previously:
email
search (duckduckgo seems to work better than google sometimes)
reader
posted by coffeefilter to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is really unspecific and it's not clear why the three cited previously links are inadequate. -- restless_nomad

 
What specific services are you interested in?
posted by John Cohen at 1:13 PM on July 16, 2011


Just to be clear, that policy only applies to Google Profiles / Google +.

Gmail, YouTube, search etc are all unaffected.

Now, if you want to switch because that policy on Profiles/Plus offends you, no problem, just want to make sure the scope of it is clear.
posted by wildcrdj at 1:18 PM on July 16, 2011


I, too, am puzzled by this question, which seems more like an excuse for an inaccurate political statement than a real question. The pseudonym policy applies only to Google+, as noted. If you want a similar social networking service that doesn't have such a policy, Myspace is probably your best bet. (Facebook also appears to have a similar policy.)
posted by grouse at 1:26 PM on July 16, 2011 [3 favorites]


Yahoo email
Facebook social networking
Bing search
Flickr photos

What services do you want?
posted by J. Wilson at 1:29 PM on July 16, 2011


I just read an article by IEEE regarding this issue.

How I Learned to Live Google-free

After reading this article I have since learned to enjoy duckduckgo.
posted by BuffaloChickenWing at 1:34 PM on July 16, 2011 [1 favorite]


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