The odds that Google has the best whatever engineers in the world diminishes as whatever gets further and further from search and advertising. Are they going to be designing their own processors? Fabbing them? DEC is the last company I can think of that was fully vertically integrated, even Apple isn't.
Vint Cerf is already under Google's patronage. I am pretty sure TCP/IP is not exactly Google's "core" business! No matter how far the "whatever" is, it is clearly helping and supporting search and advertising.
