Google Giving & Then Taking Back?

[rustybrick]

I posted a blog entry, Resource Issues and Googles Growth? based on my discuss with Gary Price on Google announcing products and then having to remove them, either temporarily or permanently.

The example I gave were; Google Earth Download gone for now, Google X pulled, Google Accelerator gone, Google Sitemaps taken down by a slashdotting.

Is this just a PR ploy or a resources issue or something else?

[rustybrick]

Gary pointed me to this quote:

"Brin said the company's inability to recruit more top-tier computer scientists and engineers abroad is slowing its plans to make Google available to users of cell phones and other portable"

And more quotes at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050210-101033