The reason google has become so popular is because of it’s honesty. This is intentionally throwing honesty out the window in favor of greed. Why can’t google use their own pay-for services and be in the same running as everybody else?

The problem is they’re good at searching, and they’ve proven to be good at handling advertising.

What the hell is youtube? How many business out there lose sight of what they’re good at, and what got them popular, in favor of spreading out into as many business branches as it can? It’s all in the name of greed. They have to keep that stock price going up, and once you own an industry you have to try to spread out. Larry and Sergey even know this, as witnessed by the disappearance of google answers.

Their mistake was going with an IPO. They should have stayed reasonable, profitable, and passionate. They no longer are, and they have so many people involved that they just default to typical corporate monkey behavior; “bring in as much money as possible because our stock price depends on it!”