Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Annual Revenue: $50.2 billion
The best example of a website becoming “ubiquitous” is perhaps the strange case of Google.
The word “google,” which simply means to look something up on Google, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
For years, Google has been the standard of search engines. Using any other search engine was a telling sign that you belong to a previous generation of obsolescence.