Google has reached the backlash stage in the PR cycle, Yahoo has passed into the too-established-to-be-interesting stage.

Yes, in the press. My question was more about people ("real people you meet" versus "people you read about"), but I agree -- the press has played with the "don't be evil" at leisure, and rightly so (imho).

Still the question about the real people stands.

Yes, nobody questions Yahoo's evilness. That should tell you something.