I don't find that the "Google is a one-trick pony" argument holds much water. I'd say that Search, Maps/Earth, GMail, and probably a couple others I'm forgetti

I don't find that the "Google is a one-trick pony" argument holds much water. I'd say that Search, Maps/Earth, GMail, and probably a couple others I'm forgetting are all best-in-class products that were revelatory when they came out. Chrome isn't revelatory, but I'd certainly shortlist it for best browser. What the author is responding to, and validly (albeit overzealously) so, is a presumption some have that Google can do no wrong. The fact is that most of Google's products aren't much to write home about. Outside their core group of awesome products, Google has been beaten time and again by tiny startups (YouTube is probably the foremost example). But the same is true of almost all big companies. So no, Google isn't a one-trick pony, it's a four-to-five-trick pony, and if it's really good, it'll add a trick every few years.