exactly prof … and I suspect this latest dance is a sign of things to come and serves as preparation for the year 2004.
Its been a rumor for some time that msn has had its hand in the pot regarding google. Thats why yahoo went out and got inktomi and others.
I have a gut feeling that a huge SE war is about to start and I believe its really going to hurt a lot of affiliate type sites 
Be pretty ironic if this did some of us in since weve been worried more about legistlation.