Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don’t get us wrong, we’re long-standing admirers of many of Google’s products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and ‘free’, but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time.
What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem.
In this series we explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We recommend open source solutions only.
| Alternatives to Google's Products and Services | |
|---|---|
 | Gmail is a hugely popular email service. |
 | Maps is a web mapping service offering satellite imagery, aerial photography, and more. |
 | Photos stores your images in the cloud for convenient access from anywhere. |
 | Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service. |
 | Calendar helps manage your busy life with a digital calendar. |
 | Chrome is application software for accessing the World Wide Web. |
 | Search looks at privacy-focused alternatives to Google Search. |
 | Drive is a file storage and synchronization service. |
 | Earth Pro maps Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS. |
 | DNS resolves a particular domain name to its IP equivalent. |
 | YouTube is an online video sharing and social media platform. |
 | Google Docs is a web-based productivity office suite. |
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