>>Basically their own Ballmer era is what Google is entering. If its just one person, it often easy to fix the problem by eliminating that one person(like Micr

>>Basically their own Ballmer era is what Google is entering. If its just one person, it often easy to fix the problem by eliminating that one person(like Microsoft). But if an entire cartel is at work in the top layers. Like the political brotherhood, to say. It will be impossible to solve the problem until an eventual IBM like corporation will come to happen. Basically you fire one exec, and the brotherhood will bring one from their golf buddies to replace them, and this process will go on. No one know what's to be done to fix the problem, because whatever new boss you will get will be the same as the old boss. I'm also fairly sure by now that the 20% spare time project culture/process is fairly dead by now. No political exec will let some programmer create a project leading to creation of a new threat to their fiefdom. I'm guessing most of Google's growth will now come only from Acquisitions.