Indeed, there was a lot of noise about his desire for broad-sweeping streamlining -- namely dropping projects (or combining projects) and increasing acquisition

Indeed, there was a lot of noise about his desire for broad-sweeping streamlining -- namely dropping projects (or combining projects) and increasing acquisitions. Notably they stopped projects that had limited adoption. Incidentally this was also when 20% time fell through and Google Plus really started to be pushed as the centre-piece connecting all other projects.