[serf]

Google search was by no means the first search engine, or the best. They succeeded by having good business acumen during one of the most turbulent phases of industry that tech has ever seen, along with a big drive to integrate the non-tech public into their products.

google has done great, I don't buy ' literally revolutionized the human experience of recorded information? ' -- it's simply not true; they just did well in that niche.

Had they gone insolvent another similar group would have dominated that same field, that should make it dead obvious that their business (search specifically) wasn't revolutionary -- just very successful.