http://origin.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_5616706
I see more awakening moments like this coming from folks who fuel the "Big G" .. Google has a lot of moving parts and those parts are going to want a bigger piece of the action in the years ahead. Much of this is driven by Google’s own market cap. I had a friend tell me he could envision Google as a 250 Billion dollar company.. If that’s so, it only increases the disconnect between the value of GOOG vs those who drive it and those which do what GOOG does (just not ‘quite’ as well).
Google set a dangerous precedent when they started making licensing deals with companies for videos on youtube. Even though inherently different, I think this is starting to carry over into their search business in situations like this.