History shows us that the ability to survive chaos and general incompetency is orthogonal to the ability to withstand deliberate and focused sabotage. For the

History shows us that the ability to survive chaos and general incompetency is orthogonal to the ability to withstand deliberate and focused sabotage. For the former you just need to be big, heavy and slow so the chaotic movements decay and extinguish each other. And Google is, as you noticed, very well suited for that. The latter, however, requires active counter-actions IMHO. Being big and slow is not going to protect you from the "fifth column". It's not like Google has 0 competition - Baidu, Yandex, even Bing, all can easily take its place in search when/if an opportunity opens.