Google is exactly as indispensible as Altavista, Borland, Ashton-Tate or MySpace. If Google died overnight, very few would really care. There are plenty of oth

Google is exactly as indispensible as Altavista, Borland, Ashton-Tate or MySpace. If Google died overnight, very few would really care. There are plenty of other replacements. The only ones who would care would be journalists who would proceed to bore us for weeks with articles about how amazing Google once was. It would also spawn a subgenre of writing about the putative sainthoods of Brin and Page ( a la the current cult of Job )