Google's search engine and Apple's iPhone changed the tech game in ways the world still hasn't fully quantified. Google is now commonly used as both a subject and a verb in grammatical terms, while ...

Ah, Google. We couldn't live without its search engine, Gmail, and especially YouTube. Its services are practically ubiquitous, and the world would reel from the loss if it were to vanish tomorrow.

Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...