Not everything Google does is about massively distributed computing. But the work on massively distributed computing payed off in serving images, videos, and do

Not everything Google does is about massively distributed computing. But the work on massively distributed computing payed off in serving images, videos, and doing caching content. I see the point you are trying to make and even agree with. But it is still a little odd that no one saw the success that is possible with what google did and worked to replicate it.