Where you see fanboyism in my comment, I see an echo-chamber narrative being advanced in posts like these that give little context to numerous unique business and management complexities that must be faced running a company like Google at time like this in its existence.

Last week writers like this were saying Google was dying because of stagnation and because 'social just isn't in its DNA'. This week they're saying Google is dying because it's trying not to stagnate and 'get social.'