Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on a recent JupiterResearch study naming Google as the America’s favorite Internet brand. The search-engine-turned-media-company beat out Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, MySpace, Microsoft and AOL, with 35% of the vote.

Why all the love? Could it be Google’s mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”? Their colorful logo? Their “No Pop-ups” policy? Their fun-loving culture? Their unrelenting rise to world domination?

Besides being the top search engine in the United States, Google owns Blogger, YouTube, and gBox, an online music store designed to rival iTunes. And those are just a few of the products and services we know about…