According to this article all of the Project Managers where fired: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/googl...

That article (and others) say it's because "Google hired only the most talented engineers, he thought that extra layer of supervision was not just unnecessary but also an impediment. He also suspected that Google’s project managers were steering engineers away from working on projects that were personally important to him. For example, Page had outlined a plan to scan all the world’s books and make them searchable online, but somehow no one was working on it. Page blamed the project managers."

Thanks, that is a good link. Reading on it seems they weren't fired after all.

Wow, what an awful manager. That's the business equivalent of flipping over the gameboard because one is losing.

Sadly, it sounds like the exact same thing needs to happen at Google again. History is repeating itself.