What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail?

https://lemmy.ca/post/1292945

What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail? - Lemmy.ca

Right now? Bad. Other Big Tech would swoop in and tech their place and try and take their proprietary market share, but a lot of the open source work would be left to die on the vine, including Firefox. It would be a loss of paid talent in the FOSS world and a massive consolidation of big tech.