[aeberbach]

You could search the web as a whole and find many examples of fast follower used as I used it. You don't have to look very hard at all to find it applied to Google. Your definition is excessively narrow.

Even Don Dodge calls Google a fast follower: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/10/first...

Guess where he works?