If you prefer, please describe the reasons for answers.
1- Finding information is trivial
2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document
In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Can we design a hypothetical alternate internet where search engines are not required?
But what has happened in the latter decades, that has now made the USA the technology capital of the world.
Now all major Software and technology firms (barring a few) are based in the USA. E.g. Apple, Google, FB, Microsoft, etc..
PS : This is an open ended question and I am looking forward to many interesting answers.