To address the original point, I don't think Chrome is a sign that Google is losing the elusive "it". Google has a bunch of less-than-popular initiatives out th

To address the original point, I don't think Chrome is a sign that Google is losing the elusive "it". Google has a bunch of less-than-popular initiatives out there. Sometimes, they roll new products out not as an end-game but as a means to some other non-obvious goal.