As is often forgotten on HN, a company is nothing but a bunch of people, each with their own incentives and political dominions to defend. We like to think of

As is often forgotten on HN, a company is nothing but a bunch of people, each with their own incentives and political dominions to defend. We like to think of a company as one entity and assign to it some sort of anthropomorphic aspect, but that's just a dumbed-down simplification our minds like to make to make dealing with the world easier. Especially for a company as large as Google, were political infighting between product verticals are a documented problem. In that regard, it is not ironic at all, there is no such thing as consistency in such a large human organization. Hell, even the army is not capable of doing this properly.