This was 13 years ago, and Google has since had many "revelations" about its misuse of useless tools like brainteasers. The current process and interviewer training/selection process is nothing like the process in 2005.
Perhaps that true, but I think it's a recent change. I vaguely remember having a brain teaser question as recently as 6 years ago, but I concede it was a long time ago and I could be remembering wrong.
