To Google or not to Google

I thoroughly enjoyed the search engine video. Whip me with a piece of wet spaghetti but I didn't even mind the guy that hosted it that much. I'm reading, or I should say, I was reading (before school started) a book called, "Mastering Online Research." It's full of info about using search engines but doesn't have any information about the history of them (might have been a logical place to begin the book). The history is fascinating. It's nearly impossible to think about using the internet without having access to a search engine. How widespread would the use of the internet be without Google?