I mean, I get the logic but re:valid business strategy, that is increasinly clearly not the case. At least as long as alienating and giving people a hard nudge to De-Google is indicative of failure, maybe I’m out of line here. All I know is I’m not hearing a certain generecized verb these days so much as the antithetical of said verb. Although I get the argument to the contrary, something something echo chamber…
Their unreliabillity is legendary and at meme-level. They are like a hotel that closes up shop and moves the set overnight while you’re sleeping so you wake up naked in the middle of the street. I’m surprised they even have real office buildings/campuses and not just movie sets on stilts.