Perennial reminder: when “Google” does things, what that means is that the two individuals who jointly have a controlling stake in Google, Page and Brin, choose for Google to do these things, or choose not to prevent Google from doing them. Obviously with an exception for things that they genuinely may not have heard about or might not have time for: but that leaves a lot of things. Object persistence is very real: don’t give Page and Brin a pass for things that Musk or Zuckerberg would be excoriated for simply because Page and Brin don’t jump up and down for attention on social media.

    Larry Page:     27.4% of voting stock
    Sergey Brin:    25.3% of voting stock
    Other officers:  1.6% of voting stock