Poll: How much do you trust Google?

Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by doctorshady on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:41PM (#7695257)

So to everyone saying there is no good alternative - out of curiosity, what are other services missing?

Things like Gmail and Google Voice weren't a particularly big deal to me. Fastmail is more then reasonable of a replacement for mail, and in place of Voice, well, unlimited long distance isn't all that hard to get. In lieu of call distribution, I'll just forward them manually if I need to be reached somewhere else.

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Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by icantthinkofone on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:44PM (#7695272)

No big deal to you. Plenty of big deal to others including myself. I have no reason not to trust Google.

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Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by doctorshady on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:47PM (#7695284)

Sorry, let me rephrase that. Finding an alternative to them was no big deal for me.

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Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by liviu on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:46PM (#7695277)

From google services I use only the search engine. So far I don't see any real alternative.

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Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by doctorshady on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:50PM (#7695293)

I thought Startpage was effectively anonymized Google?

I will say they kinda suck for searches with boolean operators, though. What with all the DMCA takedowns Google gets, that might be a moot point for some things anyway.

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Re:Poll: How much do you trust Google? by dublinben on Sunday May 04, 2014 @03:31PM (#7695439)

Have you used DDG? I find it's perfectly usable as a general-purpose search engine.

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