Lol, Classic, you sure have a way of rubbing people the wrong way, saying what nobody wants to hear. 
I find your posts interesting, you look at things from a totally different perspective.
In my opinion google will expand until shortly after it goes public. Then it will contract, and if Yahoo and MSN are going to be as agressive as I think they will be, google will keep contracting for some time.
You have to also take into account that people like us, advertisers, have a say over what happens with the advertising money spent on the web. And the casino industry controls quite a bit of that.
The users and readers of this very board are probably quite a significant part of who makes search engines and PPCs profitable.
I personally have had it with google, up to here! And I know many of my peers do too.
We will all start looking at Yahoo and MSN and figure out how to best position ourselves there – because it has great potential for the future.
Never underestimate the power of a free marketplace!
It giveth and it taketh away!