if google went out of business tomorrow, how screwed would you be?

[ElFenix]

i'd lose a whole lot of email and calendar events, it'd be a real pain in the ass.

 

[j00fek]

all id loose is my email

 

[Lonyo]

Not very.
Google sucks.

 

[FoBoT]

that is unpossible

 

[Danman]

I would pissed because their search engine is all that I ever use!

 

[DarkKnight69]

Google is going to rule the world...

Since I accept our new overlords, in the name of the great Googlie, i declare your post as blasphemy!

You will burn at the stake heretic!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

My GB of pr0n in gmail!

 

[daniel1113]

None... storing your contacts, calendar, and email on Google's server without a backup is just plain silly.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Unfortunately they won't go out of business, but if they did I could care less and it wouldn't effect me whatsoever.

 

[ryan256]

I'd lose my primary means of finding information. But I'm sure another search engine would quickly rise to take Google's place. So it wouldn't impact me much at all.

 

[vi edit]

My "home page" in IE would probably no longer work. That's about it.

 

[BoomerD]

It'd suck, but other than some e-mail crap, I would lose nothing but a good search engine.

 

[slatr]

I think losing Gmail would hurt me more than what I have invested in Google via a Roth IRA.

 

[Miramonti]

No worries.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'd be annoyed that I can't just type "g <search term>" in my IE address bar.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: Danman
I would pissed because their search engine is all that I ever use!

:thumbsup:

 

[ForumMaster]

to quote a certain individual:

Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Internet has apparently been taken over, 'conquered' if you will, by Google. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; Google will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground server farms.

google ain't gonna go away. i suppose I'd lose my email account and such a nice and convenient way to search in opera. that's it though.

 

[Staples]

Email
Calendar
Google Maps which I use almost everyday

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
that is unpossible

Inconceivable!

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I'd lose a good search engine.. I'd have to use Live Search or something.

 

[Umberger]

I'd lose all my email, over 15,000 of them... most of my address book, and I would be VERY unhappy. I love google.

 

[JC86]

email. customized homepage, and search engine . .it'd be annoying but yahoo and msn get pretty much the same results. . its just that I dun like all the other junk on yahoo and msn search page . . .

 

[PHiuR]

more than half of the internet would not know how to finder answers.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
more than half of the internet would not know how to finder answers.

I guess we could go back to using AltaVista? Hmm... wonder if it's even still active.

 

[dfuze]

Other than losing a reliable search engine, not much. I only use their email as a backup, having my mail forwarded there in addition to having it on my hard drive from my ISP.