Actually, I regularly have to go through any APIs we use from Google and yell at the developers who use them.

I can't risk having a corporate rollout/demo/pilot fail because some developer made the Googlebot pissy and got everything they're associated with banned.

I trust Microsoft way more than Google at this point. That says something.

Google is clearly guilty of neglect because they like to do everything in an automated way ...even if it can’t possibly be done well at this point.

But that is way different than Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from MS. I would not trade, say, Chrome for the world of IE. the tension between Google and Apple is far healthier for developers and consumers.