Perhaps the question is not suitable for many people, this because Google has a considerably large (and significant) number of services and of those at a certain moment we describe them.
Now, if we had the opportunity to review something of the history of Google from its very beginnings to the present, we will see that some of the services that we used with great incidence, today are no longer present, and therefore we should try to find others additional alternatives to meet our need. Just for giving a small example of this we could mention Google reader, which stopped working on the specific date that it was scheduled, a situation that forced many people to try to find some other similar service or third-party applications that can be used to read our subscriptions and RSS news.
Alternatives for some Google services
We will not be able to know at any time if any of the many services that Google offers us right now, will stop working or simply will stop being proposed for free as the firm has been doing; for this reason, now we will suggest a few alternatives that we could be using, and that come from the hand of other firms diagonally distant from Google.
1. Is there an alternative to Google Search?
Of course "yes", although the different search engines that have been proposed by equally important firms, are not to the liking of regular Google followers, referring explicitly to Yahoo.com or Bing.com; If you don't want to be part of them, we recommend you visit two really interesting services, these being:
- DuckDuckGo.com, which (theoretically) does not track absolutely anything that you get to investigate with this search engine.
- Startpage.com, which is very similar to the previous one (considered a confidential search engine) and has a menu at the top just like Google (for image, video or web searches).
2. Alternatives for Google Maps
Although it is true that Google Maps is one of the most used services of the moment, it is also true that there are a few other alternatives that are perhaps easier and more comfortable to use, including the following:
- here Maps is an excellent alternative, which offers you to click on the green button so that you can quickly locate the place where you are and some other surroundings that may be of interest to you.
- Bing Maps It also offers a good possibility of finding specific regions and localities, although we must take into account that this service belongs to Microsoft and therefore, it could be of great preference for its followers mainly.
3. What can I use instead of Google Chrome?
Despite the existence of a large number of excellent Internet browsers, many people are guided by using Google's, with certain tastes and preferences that instead use a second option (for a certain type of navigation or research). Without wanting to influence the reader in any way, perhaps we could even mention Chromium as a good alternative for browsing the web.
4. Any alternative for Google Mail?
No one can be unaware that the service currently offered for Gmail is one of the most secure above the others, and its "double verification" can be mentioned as a slight example (which was also mentioned by Microsoft); anyway, we could also be taking into account Protonmail, which offers you the possibility of having a completely private and secure email account at the same time according to its developers.
5. Alternatives to Google Drive
This is one of the most used services by those who work with files hosted in the cloud and also with documents compatible with Microsoft office; There are a few alternatives that we could use, of which we could well suggest:
6. YouTube videos
Despite currently having a large number of portals where there is considerably good material to enjoy (in terms of videos), nobody has been able to overcome what YouTube has currently achieved; anyway, discontent for the presence of inappropriate (or objectionable) videos has motivated many people to have to block certain channels, being that a good alternative for using this portal without having to change, to a different one.
7. Google and Android technology
If we have followed step by step everything related to the technology of the Android operating system (which also belongs to Google), perhaps at this moment we have one of its many devices in our hands (mobile phone, tablet or its Chromecast). If you are trying to find an alternative to this environment, then you will have to wait for the new generation of mobile devices that will have Firefox OS as their operating system.