Several of the highly-voted answers here consist of baseless speculation, facts that are very probably untrue, and mostly fantasies of uninformed pundits. Remi

Several of the highly-voted answers here consist of baseless speculation, facts that are very probably untrue, and mostly fantasies of uninformed pundits. Reminds me of this comment by Paul Buchheit (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503075 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503075) about another unfortunate quora answer (http://www.quora.com/Google-Inc-company/What-were-the-4-or-5-key-decisions-that-Larry-Page-and-Sergey-Brin-made-in-the-early-days-of-Google http://www.quora.com/Google-Inc-company/What-were-the-4-or-5...) and the pitfalls of simple up/down voting systems.