The winner of what? Making money or being listed in the search results? If Google booted him from their search results for a valid reason, then fine. But what does that have to do with him being able to make money? They weren't penalizing him because they didn't want him to make money, they were penalizing him because they didn't want him to "be evil," as he so proudly claims he is. How much money he makes has absolutely nothing to do with the equation.
I don't know about you Goob, but I'm in this business to make money. If you make 25K a month online then I consider you to be a winner. I only made 5K last month! 5 times that would be nice. It seems to me Google was trying to "make a point" (and in doing so have sabotaged their own search results) and the point is not made because Chow is obviously doing fine (in fact he's doing even better) without Google's help. And again people are missing out on the very important fact that Google's search results are now LESS relevant because they do not include JohnChow.com for the search term John Chow. This means they are failing at their job as a search engine, which is to provide relevant results. JohnChow.com is #1 on Yahoo.com for the search term... If I'm searching for this term and I see both Google's and Yahoo's results, I think that Yahoo is the better search engine. Google has to stop acting like this in my opinion, it will eventually catch up with them. They must do their job: Give relevant results. Everything else is BS.