I'm in favor of this scenario. In fact, I don't even think we should wait for the San Andreas fault to make its move.

Instead of just providing the texts, why doesn't Yahoo or Google go in-depth with a collection of texts, and provide insights on them? Open Source Shakespeare is an example of what I mean. There's an automatically-generated concordance, you can look at all of a character's lines at once, and see statistics about the plays, etc. Those are actual research tools. Being able to search a text is useful, but you could do that in 1975. I would be more impressed if these big search companies figured out how to do something more useful.