I'll admit that as a consumer (rather than a developer), I've also become less enchanted with Google over the past few years. The "Don't be evil" motto seems to have undergone some... creative interpretation. I wonder if their own corporate self-image is a number of years behind, and thus are seeing themselves as good by definition: evil is that which we don't do, and therefore what we do can't be evil. I starting to get the same vibe from them that I get from Apple, which makes me distinctly uncomfortable. The "we're big, but we're cool, and we know what you *really* want so we'll take care of it. Here, have some soma."