Comment by acdha

> Aside from the Page/Brin stealing tech salaries thing (yeah it really did happen) what happened to Google?

They bought DoubleClick in 2009, with an outcome similar to the way Boeing bought McDonnell-Douglas but their management culture was taken over by acquired company. They haven’t launched a popular product since and their preexisting products have clearly been shifting to an “ads justify the means” mentality over time.