Comment by acedTrex

They had no reason to destroy their golden goose, why release something that could hurt their money printing business.

Honestly im rather impressed with how they handled it, they had enough of the infra and org in place to jump at it once the cat was out of the bag.

Sundar declared a code red or whatever and they made it happen. But that could ONLY happen if they had the bedrock of that ability already built.

No one really remembers now that google was a year behind.