I was a big fan of Google when it first came out, simply because up to then, search engines weren't very good. Suddenly, the results were sorted by relevance!
As time went on however, news stories like the one about Google collecting data about unsecured wi-fi networks started to make me suspicious and when I found out that Google tracks your movements through Android handsets, I switched over. If I wanted to live in a surveillance state, I'd move to North Korea.