What If

[Mack]

What if google filed bankruptcy and closed shop..??

[Argo]

[DezNutz]

What if google filed bankruptcy and closed shop..??

There is always Microsoft Bing.

[Leo the Conqueror]

The world would probably cease to exist

[Axy]

:O:

See, that is one of those things where russia is one step ahead. According to what I read, they preffer Yandex. And facebook? They have their own thing. Internet across the country? They dont need the global one (whatever that means, really).
Why do they Actually do need these options, not sure...

love that one, argo

[Most Lee Harmless]

The internet works on scale : the backbone requires substantial infrastructure to keep it running at a capacity high enough to allow us all to surf pretty much instantaneously. Google, Amazon and the comparable majors across the world provide that scale. We have almost minimal cost cloud storage and computing for that reason.

Google broke the Microsoft model for monetising software and OS. So they wont be crying if the google goes toodle-pip.

Of more concern is the stuff it does that is not obviously 'google' : the R&D that underpins progress. It also straight-jackets it into a future income stream for google itself. So, it is comparable to Big Oil and the motor industry in that regard : it decides what is 'useful' and what is not. It has no interest in funding research or solutions that might conflict with its own financial interests. Like all disruptive technologies it then seeks to stop newer techs disrupting them and becomes the established order itself. So, there might well be gains made with its passing allowing newer disruptive techs to emerge.

A good 'what if' though.

[William one eye]

Its not what if, its just when.

....its 1985 and you want to call home and you dont have a bag phone... what if there was no payphone?

...its 1995, what if my landline goes down and i cannot dial into the internet. ...

Its 1998 and your freind tells you to try this new search engine thats better than alta vista you dont believe him but by the next year you are only using google search.

By 2000 you forget lycos even existed.

Everything runs its coarse and is replaced
Eventually.

[Mack]

i was thinking about how much everything uses google and the physical part like Most Lee Harmless was talking about.

all that data..

[Leo the Conqueror]

What if corn stopped growing

[Mohammed]

What if the dead rise again