At some point someone is going to look back through google's behavior to determine if an anti-trust case can be made to break up the company into several divisions.

Decisions like this will come back to haunt them at that time. It's like the microsoft bundling of IE, it must have seemed like a very good idea at the time.

Giving those that oppose you iron-clad arguments for the implementation of Chinese walls does not seem like a good idea to me.