Puzzled by Orkut Puzzlement

Being no member of Orkut (I have no key), I am lurking behind the walls, reading what others have to tell about it. SFGate.com reports about experts Internet searchers puzzlement at what Google is looking after with Orkut. Is it an anomaly or a sign of something bigger to come? Some must know for sure but not at JupiterResearch where a staff is quoted saying: "The company's additions this year -- from satellite map images to digital photo management to e-mail -- have followed no logical pattern". Experts hate not to know, as well as markets they cater to. I am puzzled by experts' puzzlement. With cash and hype in coffers, Google is in the advantageous position to indeed test things along non-logical fuzzy patterns. You just pop up at the DIY shop and grab materials and tools that catch your eyes, to see what you can do with all that later when back home. I want to childishly believe that Google has no plan, that is not a 166 pages final draft document with PowerPoint presentations. There may be a plan, but the luxury of it all is that there may be no logical plan per se, and I for one is envious of Google's chance to be able to child play, that is improvise on the spot, mix ingredients and see what happens. This is somewhat sustained by a remark of Howard Gobioff, prinicipal engineer at the new Google Tokyo research center quoted in Inworld that the "the center's role in Google's global R&D network is yet to be defined and will be shaped by the people who are hired to work there".