Call it beta or whatnot... but Google was very up-front that this was the initial release of the product, and that they wanted to select a limited size team to

Call it beta or whatnot... but Google was very up-front that this was the initial release of the product, and that they wanted to select a limited size team to get them out in the world, to people who would give them perspective. He wrote that he'd use it and blog/journal about it and whatnot. If he wanted an end product that was polished, he mislead google and misled himself.