Re: Yawn.....
I was on the anti-Google side of this debate till I saw Barry's post and did a simple test:
Search "online picture storage" in Google, there's shutterfly, snapfish, flickr above picasa (which is the 7th entry)
Search "free online data storage" in Google, there's 6 or 7 products and google drive isn't even on the front page (it appears in the ad section together with a bunch of others)
Search "online translation" in Google, google translate is number 1 (as expected, while far from perfect Google translate is really good at what is a hugely difficult problem, and miles ahead of anything else I've ever seen)
Search "online maps" in Google, mapquest is numbre 1, google maps is number 2 (!!!!)
So, quick look around, I can't see any evidence that G is promoting it's stuff artificially, it's products are ranked exactly where I would anticipate on a 'fair' search (even lower in the maps case). Now, possibly they have done this now and this wasn't the case before the EU started digging...