There's an also another thing that nobody seems to be discussing. What is that google is secretly cooking up in the google x lab. Larry and Sergey are ambitious guys, and the fact that they're shedding energy plan and knol, and that sergey isn't focusing much on google+ (the massive facebook threat) but instead on x lab means they've got to be gearing up to drop a serious scifi bomb on the scale of the google car (or bigger).