[ghego1]

To be fair, this sentence could be valid in regard of most big tech companies. Take for example the ESC button of Apple, or nearly any UI redesigns of Facebook, the [whatever Ballmer's Microsoft used to do with Windows] for Microsoft, and so on.

Having said that, I agree that Google should know better. They base their entire strategy on pure data, but I fear that in this way they are forgetting to factor in things that are not (yet) measurable or measured.