Death of Google's Engineering Culture

Sergey Brin is leading a push to move Google from features to products -- a push to bring sanity to Google's myriad of product releases that are sometimes half-baked, then abandoned as engineers move on to the next exciting thing in the hopper. The Google engineering culture is about to die as Google now focus on growing their business -- not alienate their customers. While Google has some great products, they lack the features of competitors, and therefore hardly achieve market penetration. Good news for Google's customers -- bad news for the pocket-protector set.