It's not the first time that I've had this question on my mind, but reading Matt Prigge's post last week -- which echoed my own sentiments about cloud computing -- led me to contemplate why we seem to consider Google's cloud more trustworthy than others.
Nobody pushes cloud computing harder than Google: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Apps, Google this, Google that. It's all based on a framework of remote resources and an amorphous blob of processing that's been tuned to spit out whatever we happen to be looking for, accept whatever documents we create, and send email and IM messages. And unlike so many other cloud service providers, Google seems to be accepted in this role, while others inspire skepticism.