If Google were to go away, how would we find out?

A few days ago, for no more than 10 or 15 minutes, everything google suddenly went away. Maybe this occurrence was limited solely to my place of employment, maybe not, but the varied attempts to find out what was going on were entertaining.  Where would we find our news? How would we ever find out if this was just happening to us without the massive power of Google.

This made me think about how much of my life is wrapped up in some sort of Google application. Gmail, documents, YouTube, calendar... the list goes on and on. Looking at the analytics for our website at work (another google product) I see that 92% of our search engine traffic comes from google. In any given work day, i spend probably 25% of my day using a Google tool of some sort (not counting the entire day that I have Gmail open. When I get home, I catch up on my RSS feeds, sometimes post to a blog, watch movie trailers, and update my personal calendar. All of these things are Google services. (I even use a Google browser)

So, when I see that Google stock is dropping, in some ways that scares me more than other signs of the economic apocolypse, because I know how ingrained in my entire life a "search engine" is. I guess I don't really have a point, but most of this musing was done in the absense of Google for a mere 15 minutes.