Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead

Post by deelowe » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

hodgesrm wrote: post #110

loughnane wrote: post #75

I get the desire to abandon google services, and have done so myself for email and search, but there isn't much to this article. An old gmail account being noisy is probably more a function of it being old than it being a gmail account. I suspect he'd see a great improvement just starting a new email address. Airtable has some nice functionality, but I don't think it's head-and-shoulders above sheets and this article…

The article rings completely true to me. One simple example: folders in Google Drive. * It's a constant struggle to keep documents in folders so that you can find them easily. * Yeah I get that I can do google search and find docs wherever they live. But I can't find docs if I don't know that they exist. * Moreover, I can't ensure that important documents are reliably stored in folders where everyone else can find th…

Post by fireattack » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

hodgesrm wrote: post #110

loughnane wrote: post #75

I get the desire to abandon google services, and have done so myself for email and search, but there isn't much to this article. An old gmail account being noisy is probably more a function of it being old than it being a gmail account. I suspect he'd see a great improvement just starting a new email address. Airtable has some nice functionality, but I don't think it's head-and-shoulders above sheets and this article…

The article rings completely true to me. One simple example: folders in Google Drive. * It's a constant struggle to keep documents in folders so that you can find them easily. * Yeah I get that I can do google search and find docs wherever they live. But I can't find docs if I don't know that they exist. * Moreover, I can't ensure that important documents are reliably stored in folders where everyone else can find th…

Post by lhopki01 » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #108

The mobile Google results page is so cluttered that I switched my iPhone’s default search to DuckDuckGo. The results are a tad worse, but I’m never doing heavy-duty searches on the go. And now I don’t have to scroll past 6 ads to get the first result. I use DDG as default search on my phone and it's measurably worse than google for the majority of searches I do and there are absolutely ads on ddg. I inevitably switch…

Post by testcase_delta » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

listenallyall wrote: post #90

lostlogin wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are more Apple products listed. Maybe it’s a push to get beta OS users?

There's no urgency in switching to DDG or Safari or anything Apple. There definitely IS urgency to sign up for Hey if you want an email address as simple as "billy@hey.com", instead of "william.s.1993@hey.com"

Post by hedora » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #19

aphroz wrote: post #5

They also lost the trust of their users. They didn't drop the "don't be evil" for nothing..

Is that actually true though? I've seen more and more regular people outside tech circles dismiss Facebook but Google? Not so much. In fact, outside of HN I haven't seen many complaints at all.