Great! Here's hoping the PR pays off. Imagine if other companies noticed it was a net gain to do this sort of thing and the practice picked up steam (unlikely/impossible I know). The horror of it all!
I've been attempting this to some extent. I use startpage.com for search, google results without the tracking. Firefox for chrome, and pay $1.50 a month for a personal domain email account.
My gmail account is only used for my Android device at this point.