[jeremyarussell]

Well this is the hackers news website, if we want regular news on mundane stuff then we can go to msn yahoo google aol (hell twitter evidently) etc etc.

As far as it being insensitive, it's only like that if you feel everyone should mourn all the time for the thousands of tragic incidents that occur. Personally I would find life much less satisfying if I was busy being sad all the time.

And as for the article, it raises a highly valid point, google forsook a better system for one that isn't fully featured and as robust. I tend to think they did this so they can implement their own system, whether greed or control being the reason it stands to say that users will want the best, someone therefore should be pointing out stuff like this.