You don't read the news or blogs? There's not a single day without an article questioning Google evilness when it comes to our data. I never see any about Yahoo.
Google has reached the backlash stage in the PR cycle, Yahoo has passed into the too-established-to-be-interesting stage.
Could be. It feels that Google is the "in" company in more ways than one.
Yes, nobody questions Yahoo's evilness. That should tell you something.
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).