Well, judging by what happened last time it got a glitch - 50 separate threads on dp along the lines of "oh migod i so scared is google dowm for enny one esle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????" while the rest of the world gets on with using yahoo or twitter search.
I think even in that case everything would be returning to normal within some minutes or hours since Google like other companies and business people is all the time backing up its databases and so restoring the data would not be a huge problem for them.
If you are refering to their search system crashing...very unlikely do to the amount of data centers they have.
Dude, you honestly don't know the facts? In terms of going bust, they employ too many people so the governments will probably give them funding to stay in business so people keep their jobs. Then, they have thousands of data centers, I hear they have 25Gb/s lines and make a backup every 15 minutes and copy that backup a few times and store them in different places. No way will Google be going down for a very long time.
People would still love the internet, so live, yahoo, msn etc. would get used and fill up the gap left by the death of Google.
black holes, swarms of insects, plagues, imploding nebulas, blue smarties appearing green, but worst of all....
Now what am I supposed to say? All you guys above me took all the funny ones Anyway the probability of google bust is like 0.1/100, its just employing too many people in so many different countries so there is no way the governments would allow google to crumble.
I hope not!! That could start the 3th world war he he I dont know what could happend, but the web will become a mess for some time...