It takes Google several years to wakeup, rub their eyes, brew some coffee, code it up and deploy it. You will be amazed how hard it is to not be lulled by the s

It takes Google several years to wakeup, rub their eyes, brew some coffee, code it up and deploy it. You will be amazed how hard it is to not be lulled by the sweet sound of tens of billions in revenue adsense/adwords spews out every year. Why bother with anything else? Google's political economy is groups building new products not to build new revenue streams but to claim larger bonuses of the ad-revenue pie. Limited shelf life products and their users are just cannon fodder in that game.