This reminds me of the saying: To a man with a Hammer, everything looks like a nail. Google's Hammer is its (admittedly great) expertise at Algorithmically sol

This reminds me of the saying: To a man with a Hammer, everything looks like a nail. Google's Hammer is its (admittedly great) expertise at Algorithmically solving Hard Webscale Data Problems. Unfortunately some problems cannot be solved by the Hammer of Algorithms - Social Products is one of them and Great UI is another. Think about any Google Product (Search, Maps, Youtube, Groups,..) that is the very best in either of these two areas.