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Re:YC Annual Letter 2017 by shoyer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:18PM (#13663203)
Google's mission has been "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" since day one [1]. You're confusing mission with strategy.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/laszlo-bock-on-google-mission...

Re:YC Annual Letter 2017 by pvg on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:21PM (#13663229)
Not only that but the actual improvement was so substantial it might have well been a different product - a web search engine that actually works.