I'm sitting here and trying, and I think that I agree with you. As far as I can find examples for, Google just does things better. That's how they win. They are clever about how they go about something, and sometimes their existing technologies plug in in such a way to give an advantage, but in many cases, they just throw tons of talent and money at a problem others have been working at. That isn't to say that they don't have vision. I believe they do. They pick good problems to solve better than others do. You could say that the scale of their experiments is revolutionary. Only Google can inject Buzz into everyone's emails, or throw out a solution without a problem like Google Wave with such gusto. But I think that Google+ will eventually kill all of that. Ok, maybe Google Wave was some sort of innovation. I only say that, because I can't say what it was trying to solve.