I don't work for ancestry.com, and they don't pay me. I recently signed up ancestry.com to research our family geneology. My biggest complaint is the search functionality often returns way too much data. Their search/matching algorithm is quite eager. The service isn't cheap, but then again how much would it cost to manually do the research yourself? How much time would you have to spent going through dusty census records? How much time do you have to spent tracking down the geneology going back up the tree? It took me a few days to understand how their search works, but once I got a hang of it, it was easier to find records for people in our family tree. It's not perfect, but it does quite a bit. If I had to search census records going back to 1910, it sure as heck would cost more than a monthly subscription.

the reality is, there is no real competition. the best we can hope for is better customer service and slightly less dishonest billing.

I would vote for that on one condition. Slash the government by 75%. The problem it creates though is who do you cut? Fire fighters, police, teachers, civil servants or the military? What if they cut the teachers by half and now your child isn't getting the education you desire for him/her? All those people who are out of jobs, what should they do now? This problem has existed for centuries, we're not the first society to struggle with it.

I don't know what police cars look like in UK, but the car behind google "might" be a cop car. If that's the case, maybe he was going slow to avoid getting pulled over?