Momentum is hard to slow down though. All the new products absolutely have sucked. At this point though, I don't think layoffs are going to do anything. His ap

Momentum is hard to slow down though. All the new products absolutely have sucked. At this point though, I don't think layoffs are going to do anything. His approach has fundamentally, and pretty permanently changed Google. It is very easy to ruin the culture of a company top-down, it is nearly impossible to fix it once its been broken. Google isn't going anywhere anytime soon, it will create strong returns for years to come, but it will no longer be a front-runner in innovation and technology. Although, Google's momentum is no where near as what IBM, Oracle, etc were since they don't have any large-company dependency on them that can't be disrupted.