[buscoquadnary]

Honestly this is what the canary in the coal mine was for me.

As soon as it happened I said to myself "This is juicing of short term metrics at the expense of long term success and goodwill, the final triumph of management over engineering."

It was obviously such a user hostile obnoxious move that I will never understand why no one ever pointed it out.

Googles hey day is past it may stick around for a long time but it has become the new MS, while MS is the new IBM.

It's funny I always assumed Amazon would become MS before Google.

[bushbaba]

Amazon is the new Google. Google the new IBM. MS seems to be doing fine. What is Google's next cash-cow? Google's Cloud pitch sure reminds me of IBM's "Big Data" push.