[ferdo]

My post in fewer words: Page and Brin have wandered from their roots.

That's not "anti-Google propaganda". That's honest criticism from an old geek.

[patrickaljord]

Not really, as zeckalpha pointed out, this is quoted out of context and was talking about OpenText:

"The difference between Google's advertisements and OpenText's is Google (usually) identifies advertisements as advertisements."

Also, Google results have gotten significantly better than they were in 1998 so even if we ignore the OpenText context, I don't see how this could be a successful prediction as you're trying to imply.