villa, i’m well aware of those sorts of stats, but the number of returned pages in Google isn’t a very good indicator of how competitive an industry is or is not. It may be a starting point, but you really have to look at the strength of the sites that are ranking for those terms.
The Overture searches is a decent place to start, but if you add together gambling terms vs. hosting terms, gambling far outweighs them (of course Overture’s numbers can’t be completely trusted as there are plenty of us checking our search results on a daily basis and artificially inflating these numbers).
Overture searches (April):
1,678,000 Web Hosting
795,000 Web Hosting Provider
409,000 Hosting
222,000 Domain Hosting
123,000 Cheap Web Hosting
3,227,000
1,266,000 Online Casino
909,000 Casino
1,031,000 Poker
501,000 Online Poker
545,000 Gambling
259,000 Online Gambling
243,000 Slots
296,000 Bingo
115,000 Sport Book
5,165,000