Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
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Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#2So, what are people using as alternatives these days? I use gmail, google talk and google.com exclusively for email, chat and search. If (for arguments sake) I wanted to switch what is there of similar quality that still be around and relevant in 3 or 4 years?
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#3You don't have to get a job at another company. You could also start your own.
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#4SPYW: "Search Plus Your World"
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#5This all makes no never-mind to me, as I'm going to turn that right off (you can do that, right?). I prefer to evaluate on my own what information is relevant and what isn't. Happy accidents, you know.
Did Google ever announce what the rationale for this is, from a revenue perspective? Is a link with content that a person is likely to recognize also likely to generate extra revenue?
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
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Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#7You don't have to get a job at another company. You could also start your own.
Let's hope that this leads to an exodus of Googler's who leave to create their own startups.
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#8So, what are people using as alternatives these days? I use gmail, google talk and google.com exclusively for email, chat and search. If (for arguments sake) I wanted to switch what is there of similar quality that still be around and relevant in 3 or 4 years?
I'm not being facetious when I say try Microsoft - Hotmail, Office365, Live Messenger, Bing
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#9So, what are people using as alternatives these days? I use gmail, google talk and google.com exclusively for email, chat and search. If (for arguments sake) I wanted to switch what is there of similar quality that still be around and relevant in 3 or 4 years?
http://duckduckgo.com is an excellent search engine that takes user privacy seriously.
For me it tends to fail on very specific queries and then I use it's Google Bang to just have it redirect me to Google. But it's as good as Google for my typical queries.
Re: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
#10So, what are people using as alternatives these days? I use gmail, google talk and google.com exclusively for email, chat and search. If (for arguments sake) I wanted to switch what is there of similar quality that still be around and relevant in 3 or 4 years?
Google Talk is plain vanilla XMPP (except the audio/video extensions), and any XMPP server can chat to any Google Talk user. The Google Talk client itself is shit and hasn't been updated in years, you won't be missing out on anything there.
I use Mail.app w/ GMail over IMAP and have no problems. I could switch to any other provider of course, but see no reason to do so as accessing GMail over IMAP doesn't have any of this social crap associated with it. Unfortunately, on Windows I'm forced to use gmail.com as no desktop client comes even close to Mail.app's fully integrated and optimized IMAP support. Outlook's IMAP support is STILL blocking/synchronous for most operations, hanging the entire software while it syncs headers or sends items to be erased. Thunderbird is as clunky as ever.
Google is the only one left, then. I used DDG for a while, but I think they need to step up their game with regards to simplifying the UI (i.e. remove the attempts at finding the info you're looking for for you or at least provide an option to disable this) and speed up both page serves and queries, w/ geodistributed caching, etc.
Or you could just use Google SSL, but disable all cookies for that domain.