Look at what an asset YouTube is compared to a few years ago before Google bought it. My life would be way better if Google and not Microsoft had bought Skype. Skype would actualy work and would be 4K resolution by now.
And look at Google itself. Can you imagine having something like we have today 30 years ago? Would we even have believed it possible?
I'm glad to let Google collect their ad revenue. And when I run into a web page that takes 45 seconds to load I just head back FR and maybe Drudge and watch them load in a few hundred milliseconds.
I feel similarly about Google. My only complaint beside their politics is that their GUIs have a tendency to be poorly designed. Regarding advertising, I’ve got no problem with it. To me it’s a small price to pay for all the otherwise free content. Most sites strike an acceptable balance with the ads. The sites that are too annoying I don’t return to.
Yes. Google did not invent spidering, search engines or anything else like that. They did it more comprehensively and presented it better than anyone else. Instead of being greedy and stupid like almost all the rest, the presented a useful search interface (and still do) free of extraneous junk like ads. They had a long term vision and now place ads within the search results, sometimes to excess. But they know like everyone else that they will be replaced if they go too far.