"wacky, crazy, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory" != "conspiracy theory" ;)
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Or even better - host your own email server.
Not really, all you need are a motherboard supporting (fake) hardware RAID (that's almost any over $100) and a couple of good 240GB SSDs. A RAID 0 will far outperform the MacPro in random access (e.g. OS drive) and in the worst case - sequential reading - will be no more than 10% slower.
The hard to replicate part is the OS, but IMHO Linux and Windows with some UI configuration are superior.
Google is only having "SEO scheme" problems with freeloaders, like RapGenius.
To site Wikipedia: "Don't be evil" was the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google. Key word here is was.