Well with retail you are kind of already in the business of buying and selling hardware, so to me it doesn't seem that big of a stretch. In both you are handlin

Well with retail you are kind of already in the business of buying and selling hardware, so to me it doesn't seem that big of a stretch. In both you are handling big volumes with very high emphasis on cost-margins. Search, yeah. Intrinsically maybe not, but Google has some very skilled engineers and researchers, who have pioneered a lot of the modern cloud applications/algorithms eg Borg/k8s, MapReduce, GFS and so on. So they have the know-how on how to build topnotch services, just not maybe as good business-savviness to sell them.