Did you read the next sentence/paragraph? > In a sense, Google has always followed Kay’s adage. The software that Google was most serious about — web search, G

Did you read the next sentence/paragraph? > In a sense, Google has always followed Kay’s adage. The software that Google was most serious about — web search, Gmail, and so forth — ran in the cloud, and with the company’s legendary data centers, they effectively built their own hardware.