Google actually apologized for making Google Video so lousy. Marissa Mayer came right out and said "We made a big mistake." Google's already scrambling to promote CBS shows on the front page, as Mayer says it should have done from Day One. Since when does Google apologize for half-baked services? Doesn't beta mean never saying you're sorry?

Last year, Marissa Mayer was missing from the slew of early Google employees getting bumped to VP. So the search maven stirred up a publicity orgy last fall, climaxing with two profiles in Business Week ("Managing Google's Idea Factory" and "The Mind of Google's Resident Muse"). Google finally made the high-profile search maven a VP. Business Week gave her one more profile before collapsing, spent and sweaty, on the couch.