Just to acquire the users maybe. And perhaps to get some top Evernote people working for them (if they haven't jumped the ship long ago). The tech itself seems

Just to acquire the users maybe. And perhaps to get some top Evernote people working for them (if they haven't jumped the ship long ago). The tech itself seems so bloated. I doubt if there's much on the backend that could be salvaged? Part-by-part it seems like google is much better at all key features (search, realtime sync). They might have some interesting OCR+analysis stuff I guess? But then again I doubt google wants to throw so many users at a product that's not ready for prime-time yet. You don't want to throw a large crowd of late adopters at an early stage product.