> We're talking Google here: they have a hard enough time coordinating internally when they're openly trying.

Which is an interesting point here: is Google a drunken master pretending to be an incompetent but way more coordinated than they appear or is Google simply an incompetent company whose left hand never knows what its right hand is doing, but yet has been extremely lucky at pretending to be competent?

(Either way, given such history how can you trust anything about Google if they seem so uncoordinated and prone to so many "oops"?)