Google is invading our pockets, homes and futures--and we couldn't be happier. 

Yesterday, Google announced its $3.2 billion purchase of Nest, the mind and manufacturer behind app-controlled thermostats and smoke detectors. And in the past year, Google has invested in robotics, wind power, solar energy and space travel.

The company has its hands in the Gmails we send, the YouTube videos we watch and even the restaurants we visit and recommend through Zagat. Google is buying up property on the web and making its way into our pockets (Android is growing faster than Apple), our houses and our futures, inching its way up to taking over half of the internet's traffic. In August of last year, it accounted for 40 percent. 

Perhaps that's why more American adults are worried about internet companies collecting information for target ads than NSA surveillance of internet data and telephone records. Still, Americans under 29 years old are more forgiving of companies like Google--just 47 percent are concerned about internet privacy compared to 59 percent of adults overall. And Google's popularity is as high as ever with an 82 percent favorability rating, according to an ABC News and Washington Post poll.

"Google is seen as a benevolent overlord," Reddit user Quetzalcoatls wrote on a thread exploring why people adore the big friendly giant.

So while you're watching Chromecast on your Google TV and using your Android phone to share a YouTube video through Gmail, remember to thank the monopolist extraordinaire, Google, for taking over our future.