The German version of the magazine "Technology Review" has an article by Charles H. Ferguson in its upcoming issue, where the author presents Google executives with speculations about the future of Google. The interesting parts are the ones Google does NOT deny: among these the development of proprietary search API's and an aggressive marketing of these to make them de-facto standards, or even a merger/takeover of Yahoo.
A teaser of the text can be found here [heise.de...] (German). Online translation tools do a decent job of converting it to English, although I seem unable to paste a translation URL here.
