[mmcconnell1618]

"On January 31, 2009, Google blocked access to virtually the entire internet for 40 minutes." - Please explain how Google created a denial of service attack on the entire internet for 40 minutes. Clearly, Dr. Epstein believes that the only way to access the internet is through a search engine.

[justinclift]

BGP misconfiguration?

[judge2020]

While his claim is false (they didn't take down the internet), Google would be the "only" [default] gateway to the internet for a large portion of users if it weren't for:

mobile app stores browsers auto-completing frequent websites (eg. searching for "apple" vs your browser auto-completing "apple.com").