Is there life after Google?

Google products are so firmly taken a leading position in the arsenal of tools each user, it seems already a symbol of the internet. We did not imagine our life without searching for that company, without e-mail service Gmail, office suite, and storage Google Drive, YouTube video hosting and so on. However, the closure of Google Reader, which is the best and the most popular program for reading RSS, has allowed us to take a look at a few Google services from a different angle.

First, we realized that neither popularity nor the quality of service does not give him the guarantee of a happy and long life. Any product of the company may be quite ruthlessly closed, if at some point in the graphics of its profits will no longer show the expected growth managers. And secondly, after a period of confusion it has come to understand that nothing bad, in fact, never happened. Google Reader on the same place there were found dozens of alternatives that are consistent with the requirements, and sometimes even show a new and interesting features.

So we decided to make you a small overview of the tools that are now ready to serve as a viable alternative to Google services. Perhaps they will be useful to you, if Google wants back something close, and maybe you will want to say "good-bye, Google!", Worried about his pathological passion to pry into your affairs. In any case, there is an alternative, and you have to know about it.

Google Search

1. DuckDuckGo
2. Yandex
3. Bing

Yes, it is a key service giant, and without it the modern internet is quite difficult to imagine. It is difficult, but possible. The rising star of search engine DuckDuckGo boasts laconic interface, speed of operation, quite a wide range of built-in features, and most importantly respect for your privacy. He currently uses the results of the work of third-party search services, and its own index sites, which, incidentally, is expanding rapidly.

If you mainly use the search by the Russian-language segment, then your choice is quite determined - it Yandex. His ability to find information in RuNet can hardly be disputed, and integration with other corporate services make him a very strong competitor to Google on our open spaces. Search engine BingUnfortunately, it has not managed to gain significant user acceptance, but it is quite suitable for the English-language search.

YouTube

1. Vimeo
2. Dailymotion
3. Metacafe

Dominance in YouTube video sharing category so clearly that all other services is clearly not just necessary. But this did not prevent each of them to take their place under the sun. For example, Vimeo It boasts a huge collection of great music clips, videos and installations that you can not find anywhere else. Dailymotion offers very similar features and also firmly ranks second in size and attendance service after YouTube. A service Metacafe He focused mainly on the short video dedicated to games, movies, music and other entertainment.

Google Docs

1. zoho Docs
2. Microsoft Web Apps

Google has created a great online office, which provides a full range of services to create, edit and store documents. However, in his shadow many people do not notice the package of services from the company ZohoWho knows how to practically the same thing, and maybe more. Text documents, presentations, spreadsheets, private cloud storage, the ability to work together - for me personally, the choice of an alternative has long been determined. Fans of Microsoft office package need to pay attention to the online package on the basis of SkyDriveThat although it can not boast an abundance of opportunities, but still makes it quite comfortable to work with text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Gmail

1. Outlook.com
2. Yandex Mail
3. Zoho. Mail

In my mind Gmail is today an ideal e-mail program, which is able to almost everything that is required of this kind of application. However, if tomorrow it will not be a long time we are not going to cry, and turned his attention primarily on the new Outlook from Microsoft. Start the service was pretty good and although there are some shortcomings, today, this email client is worthy of attention. It is impossible not to note the excellent work by email YandexWhich ranks second in the list. Well, on the third place can be delivered very famous in our e-mail client from Zoho, which like all the products of this company is made at a very decent level.

google Drive

1. Dropbox
2. SkyDrive
3. Sugarsync

Cloud storage of files - this is probably one of the few categories where Google's could not even reach the overwhelming advantage. Seized the palm Dropbox It is not going to give up, although the industry giants running out from all sides. Solution from Microsoft, too, has turned out quite competitive, also through integration into the new version of Windows has good growth prospects. Sugarsync although it boasts a wide range of features, yet remains because of its complexity refuge for advanced users only.

google Maps

1. Yandex. Cards
2. nokia HERE
3. bing Maps

The situation with the cartographic products in some ways reminiscent of the situation in the field of research: first it seems that Google is simply irreplaceable, and a detailed study is that there are quite worthy alternatives. For our customers it is primarily Yandex. CardsWhich in many respects even better than the service of Google. Also note the card from Nokia with a beautiful name HEREWho for detailed information, speed and functionality can satisfy the majority of users.

So is there life without Google? Definitely, you can say that, yes. In the network there is a sufficient number of alternative services that you can use as a replacement now. If tomorrow the search giant will not suddenly, the day after tomorrow the internet will recover from this blow, and another while in response to the question of her child, "Daddy, what does google?" you're just puzzled shrug shoulders.