Schadenfreude

[firecat]

Google+ traffic is down 37% in the last 18 days. (I'm surprised that post doesn't mention #nymwars as one of the possible causes.)

Zornhau on LJ made up a new word: Googlekaze.

Comments

[sinanju]

I noticed that too. He addresses all the suggested reasons...except #nymwars.

Which is why _I_ just deleted MY G+ account (and Google profile as well).

[jumpuphigh]

It's why I'm now using DuckDuckGo for almost all my search needs with Bing as my backup search. It's why I was looking at Zoho for email when I was notified of your comment. It's why I removed everything that I could from YouTube a few weeks ago. And it's why I didn't sign up for G+ to begin with.

[firecat]

I researched search engines that aren't Google and switched to DuckDuckGo once I was done; some of the comments on that post point to wikis that provide alternatives to a number of other services that Google offers as well.

I'm still on G+ (with a pseudonym) to thumb my nose at the pseudonym haters and because that's the easiest way to follow #nymwars, but I am posting almost nothing.

[jumpuphigh]

I saw that post of yours. It was linked somewhere. Thank you for it. I had used DDG a long while ago but their search results were pretty crap at the time so I stopped using it. I am getting much better results now from them.

I've read too much about Google linking stuff that you don't want linked (via skud) and too many lose everything if you delete your G+ or they don't like your name situations to even take the risk. Although I do have much temptation to get an account just to be a trouble-maker.

[jumpuphigh]

I am highly amused. I posted the link on Twitter and made a comment regarding his ignoring #nymwars and he sent me a tweet that said:
I publish every comment, even scan hundreds of spam to find false positives.

Not the point, dude. Not the point.