Maybe I wouldn't say it's evil, but I'm avoiding it. To be honest I'm surprised by how much information about themselves people feel comfortable giving to a single (foreign) company. Google has some nice services but do you think they are doing it just to make your life easier? Maybe they don't use my personal data to anything evil (except advertising) right now but just in case, I won't give it to them on a silver plate.

The idea of all my e-mail, phone calls, sms, documents, contacts, purchases, searches, <insert data mining source here> going through Google makes me rush to get out my tinfoil hat which, frankly, I don't use much.

I still use Gmail and Google search, but might switch if I find out some good alternatives.