Free Exercise For Microsoft Access

I tried to free myself from Google and failed

On this day, 235 years ago, the Second Continental Congress voted for a Declaration of Independence. From that perspective, July 2nd is America's independence day, but the document wasn't ready for another two days. So it's perhaps appropriate timing to discuss the declaration I made on April 4th to free myself from Google. At the time I asked: " Can you give up Google? " Maybe you can, but I couldn't.

Google's antitrust troubles motivated me. In December, the European Commission opened an " antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search ". An investigation loomed in the United States and, as of late last month, is underway. The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing Google's business practices .

As I explained in April: "Over the coming weeks, I will disenfranchise myself from as many Google products and services as possible. This is a personal exercise to assess just how dominant Google really is and how much of its stuff can be reasonably replaced. If it can be reasonably replaced then Google might not be the dangerous monopoly some people worry that it is".

I had planned to do a series of ongoing stories describing my experience and other services compared to Google's. But almost from the start I hit wall after all with blazing speed and explosive crash and burn. My experience raises the question of how much Google products or services are woven into the very fabric of the World Wide Web.

A Fresh Start

Day 1, I ditched Google TV for Apple TV. That was easy, although I found Apple's product to be inferior. Yes, the user interface is prettier, but I had more content choices on Google's product. That benefit overcame the clunkier user interface's negative attributes. I also swapped the delightful Google-branded, Samsung-manufactured Nexus S for iPhone 4.

Email choices are aplenty. I didn't need Gmail but couldn't do without it. The most logical webmail alternatives, Windows Live and Yahoo, don't (or didn't then) support IMAP. POP3 isn't an option -- and it's simply unthinkable -- in this era of synchronization across devices. My most important email address is hosted with Google Apps. It's a bargain at 50 bucks a year. If Microsoft offered IMAP, I would have pointed the domain to its service. I already had Apple's rip-off MobileMe service, for $99/year, with excellent mail features -- and it could replace Gmail. Since starting my Google-free exercise, Apple has announced free iCloud will replace MobileMe , which shuts down next year .

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