There are no immediate issues with AIM/AOL that I know of; they're not connected with Google, and the March 1 thing is purely the new Google privacy policy.
Also, looking at some of your suggestions a lot say "Powered by Google" do the privacy policies apply to those as well? :/
The search engines, you mean? No, that's actually kind of nifty; what most of them are doing is using Google (and/or other search engines) to do the actual searching, but acting as a gatekeeper to strip out all of your information first, so Google can't track you. Some (or maybe all) of them also avoid the personalization and ranking Google does, so you're getting pure results, not results that Google is tailoring to what it thinks you want.
If you go to a site that specifically has a Google search bar installed for searching the site, then yes, that counts as using Google search (although if you're not logged in to a Google product at the same time, it will just log the search, and not connect it to your profile).
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Also, looking at some of your suggestions a lot say "Powered by Google" do the privacy policies apply to those as well? :/
The search engines, you mean? No, that's actually kind of nifty; what most of them are doing is using Google (and/or other search engines) to do the actual searching, but acting as a gatekeeper to strip out all of your information first, so Google can't track you. Some (or maybe all) of them also avoid the personalization and ranking Google does, so you're getting pure results, not results that Google is tailoring to what it thinks you want.
If you go to a site that specifically has a Google search bar installed for searching the site, then yes, that counts as using Google search (although if you're not logged in to a Google product at the same time, it will just log the search, and not connect it to your profile).
Did that help, or make it more confusing?