I hate to ruin the party. Google can't fail. Even if they are or become susceptible to something, they have already succeeded tremendously. I really dislike contrarianism for it's sake.
Yes: can't fail. They've already won. They may stop being #1, but they've entirely changed changed the game. The Google legacy will live on.
I know what you mean, and I'm not trying to start a war of semantics. My point is given what Google has already done they can only be rightly called successful. I wouldn't consider AOL a failure; nor would I consider Microsoft a failure; nor Facebook, even if something bigger a better comes along (and, in time, I think it will).
