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Jumbonium2007 · May 9, 2007, 12:27 PM

Could you live without Google??

bstone · May 9, 2007, 12:29 PM

I already do. I only use Excite! Ever.

Dakarʒ · May 9, 2007, 12:30 PM

What the hell is excite?

Laminar · May 9, 2007, 12:33 PM

A quick Google search could tell you.

Dakarʒ · May 9, 2007, 12:33 PM

Oh the irony

edit: no i would not be happy without google.

osiris · May 9, 2007, 12:46 PM

No. I can't live without Google. I won't.

seanc · May 9, 2007, 12:53 PM

No, I couldn't.
A lot of my college work is on there (Google Docs).

Railroader · May 9, 2007, 12:53 PM

I can live without google, but not without the google search field in safari and firefox. dammit.

turtle777 · May 9, 2007, 12:56 PM

Depends.

Google Search: yes, would find something else
Google Ads: heck yeah
Google Apps: sure
Google Earth: nope, that's useful
Google Other stuff: depends.

-t

sek929 · May 9, 2007, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Railroader

I can live without google, but not without the google search field in safari and firefox. dammit.

If there wasn't Google....then....how could....you....<head explodes>

I guess I could easily go without it, but many a bet would go unsettled

design219 · May 9, 2007, 01:22 PM

would make finding porn slower.

Dakarʒ · May 9, 2007, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by design219

would make finding porn slower.

Or as I like to call it, foreplay.

TheoCryst · May 9, 2007, 01:25 PM

No. My life is nothing without Google. NOTHING!

SpaceMonkey · May 9, 2007, 01:36 PM

All I need are my AOL keywords.

Rumor · May 9, 2007, 01:41 PM

This thread wouldn't have received its idea from here, would it?

kmkkid · May 9, 2007, 01:42 PM

If google closed down right now, I doubt I'd drop dead. But who knows in another 100 yrs when they own our air and water.

Dakarʒ · May 9, 2007, 01:44 PM

I could see Doofy doing that.

Jumbonium2007 · May 9, 2007, 02:05 PM

Google search and gmail I couldnt live without.. Google earth is useful.. other google stuff I could live without

Laminar · May 9, 2007, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Google Ads: heck yeah
-t

Would you rather have Myspace-esque flashing gifs and flash-based "games?" I'm thankful for Google ads.

turtle777 · May 9, 2007, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Would you rather have Myspace-esque flashing gifs and flash-based "games?" I'm thankful for Google ads.

I agree, compared to some other sh!t, yes.

In a perfect world, I wouldn't have any ads. This perfect world is called Safari and PithHelmet

-t

shifuimam · May 9, 2007, 04:28 PM

No, because of Gmail and Google Calendar.

Yes, because Google lied to my face when I applied for a job there. They called me for a phone interview, and then said they'd send me a questionnaire to fill out. After that work, I found out that I was applying for a contractor job (read: hourly with no insurance/retirement benefits) with a third party and would work as such for three to twelve months, after which I wouldn't be guaranteed a job. I also found out, after some Googling (ohhhhh the irony there...), that for these contractor-type jobs, you pay all the expenses to travel out to California for several on-site interviews, after which you're more than likely not going to even get the contractor job in the first place.

It was just shady business to me. When I found out what the deal was, I told the guy who was in contact with me that I couldn't afford to move out to California for a shaky job that could possibly leave me unemployed after an undisclosed period of time. He told me that "the interview is for a contractor position that will become a full-time position with Google", and I never heard from him again.

I personally think that Google has some unethical business practices (anyone recall when Google's news aggregator was filtering out anything that was too politically conservative?), and I'd rather just avoid them altogether.

But I haven't found an email service that works as smoothly as Gmail, and Picasa is a damn fine program.

slpdLoad · May 9, 2007, 04:31 PM

Well I'd have a much slower time finding...

Relevant information
Maps to where i want to go
Web Email
Language Translations
Images
the list probably goes on

Jawbone54 · May 9, 2007, 04:33 PM

I use Google, but if it disappeared, something else would pop up and replace it.

I don't care.

Atheist · May 9, 2007, 04:52 PM

I feel I must wean myself off anything Google. They have become much to mainstream and successful. How on earth can one maintain their "cool factor" by contributing to such a blatant group of capitalists.

Laminar · May 9, 2007, 04:55 PM

Yeah, I'll sacrifice convenience to avoid looking uncool too.

Dakarʒ · May 9, 2007, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Atheist

I feel I must wean myself off anything Google. They have become much to mainstream and successful. How on earth can one maintain their "cool factor" by contributing to such a blatant group of capitalists.

You should probably stop buying Apple products, too.

Atheist · May 9, 2007, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ

You should probably stop buying Apple products, too.

Good point... cuz you know... it's all about appearances...

design219 · May 9, 2007, 05:00 PM

So, for those of us that want to look like dweebs, what should we use?

Laminar · May 9, 2007, 05:02 PM

Alienware.

mdc · May 9, 2007, 05:08 PM

I used yahoo maps for a while when I found out that they had multiple point routes. Now that Google maps has multiple point routes I'm back on there.
Yahoo search does an okay job of results, so maps and searching can be done.

I have GMail for my domain which I'd have to point back to my hosting and find a (better than squirrelmail) webmail client.

Other than those 3 things I don't use google search all that much. I think I could, but I can't be bothered.

SeSawaya · May 9, 2007, 08:00 PM

didnt we all YAHOO once upon a time?

I'd hate to lose Google.

design219 · May 9, 2007, 08:02 PM

remember webcrawler? and then savy search?

Nebagakid · May 9, 2007, 08:20 PM

LYCOS!!!!

I need GoogleMaps, but besides that I'd be fine.

My mother, on the other hand, types domain names into the google search....

Railroader · May 9, 2007, 09:55 PM

Alti-Vista.

Ahhh... those were the days.

Rumor · May 9, 2007, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Nebagakid

My mother, on the other hand, types domain names into the google search....

So does my boss.

tie · May 10, 2007, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by SeSawaya

didnt we all YAHOO once upon a time?

I'd hate to lose Google.

No. Yahoo was always and still is dreadful. Although I still google babelfish to translate things.

Google maps is the best. Otherwise, I only use Google search.

red rocket · May 10, 2007, 06:15 AM

I find that Google search is the only one that gets me relevant results, all the other search engines are rubbish.

In olden times, I used to use those meta search engines because they appeared to be the best. As time progressed and we entered the current millennium, it gradually dawned on me that all the relevant results I got were pulled from Google, so I stopped using the meta search engines.

So, yes, I'm addicted to Google as a search engine. I'm ashamed of myself, this just isn't right.

Dakarʒ · May 10, 2007, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Atheist

Good point... cuz you know... it's all about appearances...

No, because they're "blatant group of capitalists."

shifuimam · May 10, 2007, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Nebagakid

My mother, on the other hand, types domain names into the google search....

Ahaha my mother does the exact same thing. I once tried to explain to her that you can use the address bar to type in URLs, and she was like "I don't care. I've always done it this way and I don't want to change."