[coolsunglasses]

My additional recommendations:

Gmail -> business hushmail

Google Maps -> Bing Maps

GPS -> Use an actual GPS device or one of the iOS/Android maps that download to your phone.

GChat -> This one is tricky due to being subject to network effects. Without getting into hyper nerdy jabber or private IRC nonsense, I'd say just use OTR and be done with it if the point is privacy.

Google+ -> meet people for lunch

Docs -> Zoho/Microsoft Office/Open Office.org/LibreOffice

Google Drive -> Dropbox, add encryption if you want. There are libre alternatives if you want to set up your own fileserver with automagic sync. I'm trying not to get too far out into left-field on this list.

[fpgeek]

From the perspective of privacy, Microsoft/Bing anything isn't a meaningful alternative to Google. They have almost the same privacy policy and were far less transparent about adopting it.

See: http://marketingland.com/microsoft-privacy-change-google-att...

[pseut]

I'd replace gmail and gchat with fastmail.fm (owned by Opera, although if Facebook ever buys Opera...). You can run XMPP through fastmail's servers, which lets you IM all of your gchat friends (for now at least). As has been pointed out elsewhere, GChat's OTR is not the OTR protocol, so I wouldn't count on it giving you any extra privacy.

And it should go without saying that you get your own domain name for the accounts so that you can switch providers easily.

[tdec]

Is there any indication that FB plans to buy Opera in the (near) future?

[MatthewPhillips]

There were rumors last year that never materialized, I assume that's what the parent is referring to.

[pseut]

It's been rumored repeatedly, but I'm not aware of anything firm.