This, by the way, is very typical of companies/divisions in tech "middle age" - the original founders are busy flying around in their own 767 while day to day management is now in the hands of corporate types who move up and down based no where they went to school and how late they stay at the office. Google is now a corporation, with shareholders and the quintessential way to move up (kissing a$$, stealing ideas, backstabbing your rival, managing up/not down, get promoted).

The original idea of building it for everyone is long, long gone. Remember, "don't be evil" code of conduct from 2001 or so?

"the slogan was 'also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent'.

It's now been replaced with, "do the right thing"