Google's advertising revenue-via-search-monopoly gives them a lot of cushion. No matter how poorly (or well) managed they are, problems won't be visible unless

Google's advertising revenue-via-search-monopoly gives them a lot of cushion. No matter how poorly (or well) managed they are, problems won't be visible unless the search advertising market starts to dry up, because no one will question their performance. It would be interesting to observe an alternate universe where Google that had to derive revenue solely from hardware sales. Yes, applying any single philosophy as a replacement for sound perspective on your business fundamentals seems like a bad idea. However, you don't typically see executives preaching communism as a solution. There is something particularly seductive about Randism to a certain class of corporative executive.