RHSeeger parent
You've pretty much described the "what it is for" for a large percentage of industrial inventions. Clearly, however, the world would be worse off without many of them.
would the world be worse off if facebook and google had never existed?
I doubt it
The fact that there exist things created in the pursuit of money that are of questionable benefit to society... does not, in ANY way, negate the fact that there are MANY things created via the same motivation that are a benefit to society.
would the world be worse off if instead of google it had been blooglie or hooli that succeeded?
i don't know