if you’re going to take over the world, you can’t just stop for a couple of minutes
so…I think the problem (aside from the possible/probable security and privacy issues) with trusting Google to do other things besides search engines is getting this message when trying to use Gmail:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
I really, really, really need to have access to the 137 pieces of spam that I got overnight!