Google didn't win because they monetized the best, they didn't. The got the biggest following that nobody could steal because they became and remained THE BEST

Google didn't win because they monetized the best, they didn't. The got the biggest following that nobody could steal because they became and remained THE BEST search engine ever. They then took innovations from other companies to monetize their search engine as a pure search engine, something that the larger search engines, especially Yahoo!, hadn't been able to do because they weren't particularly good search engines. While not every accelerator program is a good one, this one has proven to be extremely beneficial to its startups, with a near 100% full raise rate after the program and perhaps the best value added in terms of resources and mentors of any accelerator including YC. I will submit that perhaps I didn't do a good job explaining those two things in my post, so I hope that clears it up. There is no argument that YC is the only accelerator worth doing that matches up with the numbers (although there are MANY not worth doing) and the argument that Google won because it sold ads better than its competitors, who's ideas on selling ads they either stole or bought is ludicrous when matched up to the facts.