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Google is just one of multiple similar search products that prevailed through better execution and marketing.
This is a deep fallacy. The amount of science and technology behind Google's prevalence is absolutely huge. Google prevailed through better search results, not through execution and marketing.
Right and Facebook prevailed through being a technology company and having amazing engineers to make the technology scale. They just turned on their first data center outside of the USA (in Sweden). That datacenter is comprised of technology developed 100% by Facebook and it's 100% open sourced (including hardware). That's the power and innovation of a true technology company.
Myspace was never ever a technology company and neither were many of the competing social networks like Friendster. Facebook just built a better product. Just like Google did.