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Your numbers don't quite work - Google has to pay taxes, benefits, office space, training, perks, equipment, recruitment costs, and so on. And then, have you tried to hire 18,000 people? Finally, Google's reported head count is around 40K - you are suggesting adding about 50% just for support. That's a tough sell to your investors. Where would all these people go. Mountain View is basically Google these days - the office I am sitting in will be razed for a Google parking lot (goodbye beautiful trees :( ). You have to factor in how many new buildings, how many new buses and bus drivers, city taxes, chefs, HR personnel - it goes on and on. The phrase "google scale" doesn't just apply to their apps.

I'm not disputing that they could improve their support, just the price tag and scale that you have placed on it.




Not to mention the inflexibility associated with having that many people around. Google's lack of support may come with the territory at present.

If someone figures out how to automate support better, they're going to get paid.

At the outset of Google's growth, their products and APIs seemed timeless; with the passage of a little time, that's changed.




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