It's been a very good year for Vic Gundotra, Google's chief of social networking. His project Google Plus hit 10 million users within two weeks of launch. But it almost took a horribly wrong turn in January, when Gundotra got distracted and nearly plowed into a stopped car on the highway.

Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been shocking. Except that delusional self-righteousness is now routine at Google.

Google engineering VP Vic Gundotra, right, presumably sending reports back to the Android team from just before yesterday's announcement of the latest iPhone version by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner:…