Google didn't invent search engines. It didn't databases. It didn't invent web crawling. It invented a better search engine (Page Rank) that didn't clog up the page with portal crap. Meanwhile, Bell Labs invented the transistor, C, etc. Xerox PARC invented the GUI, Ethernet, and e-mail. Etc.
I think that makes calling Google the "greatest technology organization ever existed" laughable, not to mention historically revisionist.
And yes, that storing and searching the world's information on your finger tips is the biggest problem with regards to information distribution the world has faced so far.