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g1smd - 10:10 pm on Jan 23, 2012 (gmt 0)
can’t be properly integrated into the overall Google experience
Google is no longer a search engine handing you over to another site to get on with whatever you set out to do.
They now want to be the destination, and to retain you once you get there. It's been moving that way for a while.