Google: A highly surprising announcement

In a lengthy piece entitled "Google starting to be afraid of downturn", the FTD reports that Google's CEO made the following statement during a "technology conference":

"Eventually, the current worldwide problems will somehow also affect us."

That's it. No details, no numbers, nothing.

(The articles does go on to say that Google has so far been doing well, but has started implementing some cost cuts, just in case. No details of any sort are provided.)

I guess it must be tough to be a financial journalist: All these articles to write, all this world-shaking news you have to report to your readers...