[tyng]

"Googlers seem to love to tackle hard problems (e.g. Wave and Instant search) but social networks are not a hard problem from an engineer point of view."

So the mentality goes: there's no motivation to come up with the next best social network, unless it can also simultaneously calculate the interconnectedness of every human being on this planet...

[nanairo]

Yep, I can see them getting excited data mining people's social networks. However before they do that they need to get the social network...