It's more likely related to the cooldown in Google's expensive moonshot efforts since hiring a new CFO, Ruth Porat. Bloomberg wrote a feature story about this l

It's more likely related to the cooldown in Google's expensive moonshot efforts since hiring a new CFO, Ruth Porat. Bloomberg wrote a feature story about this last year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-ma...