I feel like this is good for Google in the long term. I remember when their new CFO took charge a couple years back, she cut a lot of "excess" to make it more p

I feel like this is good for Google in the long term. I remember when their new CFO took charge a couple years back, she cut a lot of "excess" to make it more profitable, but some of the Google flavor is allowing employees to mess around on pet projects. Gmail is easily the best example of that.