Just when I was beginning to think that the market's view of Google is far too optimistic, the company does something really smart: this time Google bought a company called @Last Software, which makes a product called SketchUp. This is quite a coincidence, since for the past five or six months, I've been telling all my friends that they really need to look at SketchUp because it is one of the slickest products I've seen for a long, long time with one of the most inventive user interfaces I've ever seen.