They have a privacy policy after all. (Do not click this, if you don't want Google to know anything about you:
link). Doesn't look too bad, and I'm so used to Google nowadays that I wouldn't want to change to another search engine... (I've tried most of them for short periods - except the MSN one, I've tried that just occasionally - IMO Google is still the best as it has been for ... hmm... when did I stop using Altavista, around 2000?)
As Sandman said, much ado about nothing...