i like google. but i dont think i can disagree with u on anything.
nice post! something very different actually

Really cool stuff. I agree with everything on this list..and it seems like you put a lot of thinking into it.
My only complaint is you were a little too easy on Chrome. Thats just POS browser. It makes IE6 look like a solid product.
Its about time that people start to see the real Goog.
And for email..nothing wrong with Yahoo mail.
As for adsense, I still use it, but it used to be good..but now..all adsense publishers are just counting pennies.

@Google LOL. Oh no the big G got me , oh well . . . . There’s always Ask Jeeves.com lmao.

Yes, you were way too easy on Google Chrome. The ONLY reason it exists is because so many people using Firefox are also using adblockers. Adbocker=no adsense, so Google makes less money at your expense.And lately Yahoo mail has been just as good at spam blocking.

The whole problem is there really aren’t any great alternatives to Google for search. You mentioned three – all three have very “busy” pages that don’t quickly let you do the thing you really want to do, which is search. Your second choice comes the closest, but it requires javascript to be enabled for even a simple search so for those of us using the Firefox NoScript extension, that’s a non-starter. And by the way, if you don’t let Google set any cookies on your system (or only set them on a per-session basis) then they will not be able to build the profile that you seem to think they are building.

This is not to suggest that I would not like to see something that actually is better than Google – thry’ve been the king of search for about ten years now and in Internet time that’s forever – certainly it’s time for something better. But the problem that any search newcomer faces is how to index the entire Internet (or the vast majority of it, anyway) without having the multitudes of servers that Google has. I’m not even talking about handling thousands or searches per second – you wouldn’t need that at first – I’m talking about the difficulty of indexing everything that’s out there, something Google does very well for the most part. Between that, and the “more on the home page is better” idea that many competitors seem to have, I doubt anyone’s really positioned to de-throne Google today. Actually, I think the competitor that comes closest is AltaVista (which has been around longer than Google!) but they don’t seem to be quite as fast in indexing new sites, or new content on existing sites (just a subjective opinion).

Excellent list. I am familiar with most of them but still they are in good description so that everyone can understand it very well. A couple of other things that I have found useful. Your efforts are awesome. keep it up.

Randall Stross’ book Planet Google has much to say about Google taking over the world: http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Google-Companys-Audacious-Everything/dp/141654691X.

p.s. Flickr is misspelled (name and URL).

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I love your post but, everything bad you said about google is not like that you are just thinking too much if you know the system.. as a developer you will understand it very well. one thing I know if you will just play fair google will never do bad things to you, people in nature wants to outsmart anyone… and once google saw you are not playing fair specially for adsense … they will surely ban you.

other than that your post was great ^^

I must say that I disagree with much of your reasoning, but I think it's important to discuss many of the issues you have brought up. We need to worry about our online privacy. We need to worry about one company having too much control. And I applaud you for doing it in a public setting and allowing others to offer their opinions.

I personally love many of the Google products and services. I am well aware of the privacy concerns, but I am very comfortable that they are completely transparent about the information they gather. And for the most part, it has been my experience that they honor their contracts in a very fair and equitable way.

Thanks for the post!

"Google’s cookie will stay on your machine until the year 2038 , so from now till 2038 they will know about every site you will visit."

Absolutely not true, you obviously have no idea of what cookies are and how they work.

Great post, a lot of good ideas here. I wanted to also suggest you check out Adroll as an alternative to Adsense. Full disclosure: I work for them, but regardless I think it's a great option for small to medium sized niche publishers looking for a premium advertising option to augment their Adsense earnings. We offer an extremely high level of transparency with minimal requirements from our publisher base. I hope you'll check us out, and let me know if you have any questions about the product.

all the reasons that you have mentioned about google are absolutely correct..they stole my money too..They strongly violating visitor's privacy here and there…internet is really in need of another alternative now!!!

Hey pal, nice article you have here
I'm a heavy gmail user actually. Mainly because it's integrated with a lot of other services. So.. ya I'm sorta stuck to it.

Nice article …. but have divergent points on few ….. will write comprehensively on them shortly……..