Drinking the Goo(g)le-Aid

So, I've had a sort of inconsistent relationship with Google over the past 4 or so years, after they branched out of their search engine to do things like Gmail.  I was able to snag a beta pass from one of my friends back in the day when you needed to be invited and invitations were limited, and have loved it ever since.  Similarly, Google Maps. . . how I love you so much, with your Street View.  Google Desktop, not so much, just because you were such a resource hog on my crappy Dell Inspiron.  I think that last experience, coupled with the nagging sense in the back of my mind that having all of my software-related dependencies rely on one corporation was going to bite me in the butt 10 years from now, was the reason I didn't really branch out any farther to Google products until I got my new phone and downloaded Google Mobile.

Now I've started this blog with Blogger (Google's blog service), have my images stored on Picasa (Google's photo gallery service), and set up Google Reader to catch RSS feeds.  All this even AFTER I started reading the terms of Google's TOS, which include this gem:

By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.  This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.  

(emphasis mine), http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=en.  

I mean, there are some limits here, like the fact that it's for advertising purposes and that for some extended services there is the possibility of revocability, but really, as someone who has uploaded a bunch of graphic work product through Google, it does give me pause.  Unfortunately, it's not really enough for me to stop doing it, I guess.  But man, Google, by far, is my worst addiction.