No magic here!

Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected

When reading this article, especially the way employees are differentiated into “Alpha”s and “Beta”s, it becomes clear that Google is employing the same just-above-the-line manipulations of Key Performance Indicators as the rest. They just had the glamour to hide it a bit more.

Listen for the THUD. I am buying options against GOOG.