Maybe, but Google are in a different league to these funds.

Google the corporation? Sure.

Many of the managers and workers at Google? Quite likely have a stake in what goes down on Wall Street.

That's more plausible but still relatively unlikely if you consider both how Google usually operate and who'd have clearance to pull the trigger if this is what is being suggested.

On balance, I really think this is just an automated system that's being conservative. Would you be in any way surprised that Google would have such a thing looking for big impulses in activity?

I doubt it. I'm at Facebook not Google but most of us employees are supporting the WSB side of this.

Most of the employees are not executives.

*Alphabet