microrobert
05-06-2013, 11:39 AM
How to stop using Google - for search, email, video, maps and more
If you want to take a stand over tax, Google will only notice if it doesn't get your attention. Here are some usable alternatives
Want to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? From its humble beginnings as a project at Stanford University, the company has grown into one which has become almost unavoidable online – and in some cases offline, as it also owns the loss-making Motorola Mobility mobile phone maker.
So how do you go about avoiding Google?
Search
This is the big one, of course. Most people in Europe who are online use Google every day at some point; it has more than 90% of the search market (notably because it offers multilingual support). The adverts that appear around Google searches and on other pages generate about 95% of Google's entire revenues. So if you avoid those, then you are – in your own small way – striking a blow against tax avoidance.
What are the alternatives? Once you start trying them, my experience is that search is actually more of a commodity than you might think.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/02/how-stop-using-google-search-services
If you want to take a stand over tax, Google will only notice if it doesn't get your attention. Here are some usable alternatives
Want to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? From its humble beginnings as a project at Stanford University, the company has grown into one which has become almost unavoidable online – and in some cases offline, as it also owns the loss-making Motorola Mobility mobile phone maker.
So how do you go about avoiding Google?
Search
This is the big one, of course. Most people in Europe who are online use Google every day at some point; it has more than 90% of the search market (notably because it offers multilingual support). The adverts that appear around Google searches and on other pages generate about 95% of Google's entire revenues. So if you avoid those, then you are – in your own small way – striking a blow against tax avoidance.
What are the alternatives? Once you start trying them, my experience is that search is actually more of a commodity than you might think.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/02/how-stop-using-google-search-services