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You're not looking at the choices they made before and during the don't be evil era. With all tech, if they didn't create it, someone else would've because it's not that super smart people "created" a thing but that the community created and made available the tools required to "invent" said technology.
But they were still created from the actual innovation of pagerank, straight out of public research, right?
I don't get your point. When they went into existence, it was a search-engine. It just did that and it did it very well. Nothing else compared slightly. No javascript, no tracking, no portal, no ads, no shit. just results.
"If not them, then someone else". Yes sure. If there's something to exploit, it will be exploited. People are shit. But we're talking about google :)