a) something that couldn't have been invented without them Are you suggesting that order of magnitude improvements on information accessibility in a planetary

a) something that couldn't have been invented without them Are you suggesting that order of magnitude improvements on information accessibility in a planetary scale is nothing? b) only unique due to their ability to scale it out, rather than a true innovation Scaling out search engine to the entire globe is THE innovation. You need to realize that any kind of innovation doesn't freely come from a bunch of idea guys, but from execution.