Google/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: The release of the Pac-Man Google Doodle (commemorating Pac-Man's 30th anniversary), in SPADES.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Going incognito (i.e. private browsing mode) in Google Chrome warns you that it won't protect you from secret agents and people standing behind you.
 * Paranoia Fuel:
 * Sure, Google is a nifty way to manage your emails and your documents, but Google also has your personal information. Do you really trust them to "not be evil"?
 * Especially since in 2018 they explicitly removed that corporate ethic from just about every user-facing webpage that used to have it.
 * Desktop search takes it Up to Eleven, quite possibly the only product that does what you want it to do way too well.
 * Scrappy Mechanic: Google Instant. It forces you to search for whatever you're typing as you type it, even though the half-written word/sentence in question probably has nothing to do with what you're really after. The thing is obnoxious when it comes to slow computers, as it takes absurd amounts of time for every individual page to load. Given the amount of loading it takes for one page, wouldn't it be a pain to go through several? To make matters worse, when it seems like you can disable it through your personal preferences, it manages to reactivate itself unless you leave virus-bound cookies on. And even if you do have a fast internet, the option keeps you from looking at several suggestions.
 * Sidetracked By the Golden Saucer: Google's Pac-Man "logo" (their first interactive Google Doodle, coinciding with Pac-Man's 30th anniversary) managed to cause this on the day it was released (spicing up a relatively boring webpage in the process that's typically used for web-searching), to the tune of approximately 4,819,352 hours of lost time, with a cost of $120,483,800. And said Google Doodle remains in playable form here.