Re:spreading themselves thin (Score 1)

I don't think so. According to Time magazine, Google employees split there time into 70%, 20%, 10%.... being directly job related activities, semi job related activities, and far off non-related ideals, respectively. The article also suggested that Google Maps and GMail came out of someone's 10% time. Their tangents are sometimes far off, but that's how they stay up on the innovation, and keep themselves a step ahead of Microsoft.