[ur-whale]

Everyone on HN seems to assume that Google has some sort of grand master product plan.

News at 11 : they most certainly don't, as can be ascertained by the gigantic random walk their product update strategy has been in the last few years.

Observing them from the outside, I sometimes even come to doubt their grand master business plan (I'm assuming they have one of those, which is also a doubtful proposition) is to make money.