Nothing compares to Bell Labs. Google is an amazing software and networking company, however the majority of its contributions are in the field of Computer Science, specifically in distributed computing and networking.
Bell Labs made significant contributions to Physics (solid-state and optics), Chemistry, Electronics, Computer Science (operating systems, graphics, speech recognition, networking), Materials Science, Communications (here they pretty much invented an entire field of study) and the design of so many everyday things (they had an entire team that focused on just the design of your telephone wire) that is would be impossible to imagine what the world would be like if they didn't exist.
If Google didn't exist, search would still have been solved, maybe a decade or so later. If Claude Shannon didn't work at Bell Labs when he did, it could well be the case that we wouldn't have come up with such an elegant theory of Information even today, and therefore the world would look nothing as it does.
Bell Labs made significant contributions to Physics (solid-state and optics), Chemistry, Electronics, Computer Science (operating systems, graphics, speech recognition, networking), Materials Science, Communications (here they pretty much invented an entire field of study) and the design of so many everyday things (they had an entire team that focused on just the design of your telephone wire) that is would be impossible to imagine what the world would be like if they didn't exist.
If Google didn't exist, search would still have been solved, maybe a decade or so later. If Claude Shannon didn't work at Bell Labs when he did, it could well be the case that we wouldn't have come up with such an elegant theory of Information even today, and therefore the world would look nothing as it does.