The decline of Google Search is increasingly in everyone’s face. Then there are the Arcs and Braves and Vivaldis of this world, but I just haven’t yet invested the time toįigure out if one of these will do, and I do not detect a wave of consensus out there.īy the way, DuckDuckGo has a browser, a shell over Safari on the Mac and Edge on Windows. I’d like to shift over to Firefox one day when I have the energy It’s no longer faster than the competition. These days Chrome is starting to creep me out a bit just doesn’t feel like it’s on my side. The product was pretty rough-edged last time I tried it. I was enthused about it in 2019 but AndroidĪuto’s music powers drew me back to Google Maps.Īside from that, Magic Earth is trying, and their business model seems acceptable, but The quality of the OpenStreetMap data is very good, but obviously they don’t have the Directions Tap on the meeting and it drops you right into directions. If you have Android Auto and you’re going to a meeting, pull up the calendar app and Is to use Google search and fight through all the ads and spam. Want to contact or interact with something whose location I know, it’s way quicker to pull up Maps and click on their listing than it They are potentially a nuclear-powered monopoly engine. Wrote in 2017, Google maps aggregate directions, reviews,ĭescriptions, phone numbers, and office hours. Nobody has to download or log into anything and it seems to more or less Just Work. I dislike lots of things about Zoom and find Microsoft Teams a pool of pain, but have been pretty happy with Google That other stuff and see if it’s a candidate to replace one or two other services? Maybe one of these years I should look at I think that calendars and email are kind of joined at the hip, so we’d want a provider that does both.Īs for online docs, I will not be sorry to shake the dust of Google Drive and Docs from my heels, I find them clumsy and amĪlways having trouble finding something that I know is in there.ĭropbox is OK, assuming you ignore all the other stuff it’s trying to sell you. We’re getting a bit creeped out over that. Finally, Google has stewardship of our lives and are probably monetizing every keystroke. The price is OK but it keeps going up, and so do our data storage requirements, what with all the cameras in We’ve been using Gmail for a really long time and are used to it, and the integration between mail and calendar and mapsīasically Just Works. To replace the things that I’m unhappy with, I’m looking for some combination of: The “Supplier” color suggests my feelings about what I’m using, with blue standing for neutral. Prime, Roku, Apple, Netflix, TSN, Sportsnet I’m calling this the “De-Google” project because they’re our chief supplier of this stuff and it’s more euphonious than (The first is already posted, see below.) Pieces about updates as I work my way through the list. This post summarizes our dependencies and then I’ll post blog So I’m going to try to be systematic about addressing the problem. And like many people, we are becoming less comfortable with that. Tech giants in general and (in our case) Google in particular. And again like most, a lot of those services come from Big My family, like most, depends on a lot of online services.
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