This misses out on what the Google "cruft" is all about. Products like Android or Chrome aren't meant to be standalone products/business (and wouldn't be profitable if they were). Their nature is a defensive moat around Googles Search/Ad business.<p>Relevant article:
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/</a>
I wouldn't call it broken, especially compared to Microsoft (I've worked for both). Besides, why don't we at least give Larry a few weeks as CEO before proposing a restructuring :-P
"<i>Companies are a lot like people.</i>"<p>True; but even more so: Corporations are living organisms; I call them humanoid organisms. <a href="http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-realm-of-the-humanoid-organisms/" rel="nofollow">http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-realm-of-the-hu...</a> Humans are the domesticated critters of humanoid organisms.