Most if not all the ISP companies in my home country used to ask you to access google.com while troubleshooting connectivity issues. They would eventually assum

Most if not all the ISP companies in my home country used to ask you to access google.com while troubleshooting connectivity issues. They would eventually assume your Internet was working as expected if at least Google loaded. Recently they changed the strategy and now use Internet speed tester which come with the requirement to have Flash installed and enabled. Many people in my country still believe that Google == Internet so I am pretty sure that if Google stops serving for whatever reason here the majority of people will get cut out of the Internet because they don't understand how to use the address bar. I have even seen people accessing google.com just to put facebook.com in the search form instead of simply typing that domain in the address bar, I cringe every time.