I shouldn't be subject to corporate surveillance any more than i should be subject to government surveillance.

I agree, but I think your definition of "surveillance" isn't a good one. Google isn't spying on you or anything, you're sending data to people using their services (or directly sending it to them via using Search or something) and it ends up getting stored on their machines. If you really want no company, without your explicit consent, to "harvest/store/sell/use" your "data/information", then you can't be on the internet, because that set of requirements is so unbelievably broad as to be impossible.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect that you can use the internet without anyone ever storing or making use of anything you send/receive in the course of that usage. It appears that's what you're asking for, though (especially based on your comment later in your post), and that's a far cry from just preventing unwarranted or unreasonable data collection.

Is your answer to the NSA issues to not talk or use anything on the internet because you're being spied on?

No, because the NSA is engaging (or attempting to, at least) in unreasonable collection of data. If I send an e-mail to someone I have a reasonable expectation that the personally identifying details of that e-mail are private to just me and them (note: this does NOT mean that I expect that Google won't use that data, without releasing any of my PII, to provide services to me and help companies target ads to me - that's a reasonable use of my data).

I don't consent to turning over my information to any company (unless I'm doing business with them) willingly. Least of all, a company like google which I want no part of.

Let's say you e-mail someone who uses GMail. They now have an e-mail in their inbox that includes your name and whatever information you included in that e-mail. Should Google delete that e-mail from their servers immediately since you don't want them to have any of your information? What is it that they're going to do with it that you're afraid of? What would be a reasonable way for them to appease you? Why don't you have the same concerns (or maybe you do) about whoever your e-mail service is?

When you connect to a website - any website - your connection goes through a vast array of networking equipment and hardware. Surely your IP address, which uniquely identifies you, is stored at least ephemerally on a bunch of those devices. It seems like this is the type of thing that would be very concerning for you. Is it? You have no guarantee that someone in that chain isn't doing something malicious with your information.

And no, I won't retreat from the internet because a company like google feels entitled to my information.

This is not a fair characterization of what I've said. You are basically saying "I should be allowed to go out in public, but no one who sees me should be allowed to remember what I look like". Some set of information associated with your internet activity is always necessarily going to be transmitted to third parties and used by them. You can't prevent that without just not using the internet - it simply isn't possible. This has nothing to do with 'surveillance' and everything to do with the practicalities of using a global network for exchanging information.