Last week, David Petherick addressed the first part of this unimaginative occurrence in “Imagine There’s No Google Part 1”. There he listed virtually every single Google service, the majority of which are completely free – the list is endless.
In this piece I had the pleasure of scouring the web for the best alternatives to each of Google Services, no easy task, however I was pleasantly surprised to find (nearly) ever offering had a close substitute.
Undoubtedly I will have missed a few and therefore will need your help, so please just leave any other alternative services you may think of in the comments and I’ll ensure I add them to the relevant section.
Google Mail
Yahoo Mail, Zimbra, Hotmail, zenbe, Mobileme,
Google Calendar
Backpack, Deadline, Mobileme, Toodledo, Yahoo Calendar, Zimbra, Tungle, presdo, jiffle, diarised
Google Docs
Zoho , Acrobat, thinkfree
Google Reader
fav.or.it, friendfeed, streamy, bloglines, newsgator
Google Friend Connect
Facebook Connect (or TwitterRemote? ;-)
Feedburner
Pheedo
Google Adsense
AdBrite, Clicksor, Bidvertiser, Chitika, AdToll, Exit Junction, Yahoo Publisher Network, Target Point, Fastclick, ClickThruTraffic
Google Knol
Wikipedia, Answerbag, Mahalo
Google Alerts
Backtype, Yotify, Trackle
Google Analytics
Woopra, Clicky
Google News
BBC, Yahoo News, NewsNow
Google Maps
Live Search Maps
Google Checkout
Digital River, 2Checkout, Alertpay, Trialpay, Paypal,
ejunkie,
Google Blog Search
trendpedia, feedster, icerocket, sphere,
Google Chrome
Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera,
Google Finance
Yahoo Finance, bloomberg,
Google Groups
Yahoo Groups, onehub, Tangler
Google Translate
Babel Fish, Nice Translator, Frengly, Jollo, Lingoz,
Google App Engine
Microsoft Azure, Mosso, Cohesiveft
YouTube
Vimeo, Viddler, Metacafe, Yahoo Video, Revver,
Google Search
chacha, faroo, kosmix, quintura, yahoo search, live search, twitter search, dogpile, cuil, Duck Duck Go
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