Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How To: Escape From Google's Clutches, Once and For All - How to leave google - Gizmodo

A timely Google reality check 

The decision to close your Google account has to be carefully considered—after all, this is the place that stores your email, your documents, your contacts, your photos, your news, and even your health records. But this level of investment to one service is as good a reason to leave as it is to stay: If looking at your Google Dashboard, which lists all the services you use, and the amount and type of information you store on them, doesn't make you feel a little uneasy, then hell, what would?

Anyway, I'm not here to make the case for you to drop Google altogether—it's not something I'm prepared to do, for a start—I'm just here to tell you how to do it. Here's everything you need to know about life after Google.

How To: Escape From Google's Clutches, Once and For All - How to leave google - Gizmodo

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