I'm just impressed with how this was handled. Consider how much more technocratic this is than a news release from ten years ago. Google issues an announcement

I'm just impressed with how this was handled. Consider how much more technocratic this is than a news release from ten years ago. Google issues an announcement via blog post. TC and others start to pick it up. And the original author of the blog post takes questions and provides technical answers, where allowed, in HN.