Google on Tuesday mounted a national dog-and-pony show to remind Americans that big can be beautiful. The search giant estimates its economic impact at $54 billion a year, and I’m proud to say that I might account for .00000000001% of that. (Just an estimate — I didn’t do the math.)

Without Google, thousands of lifestyle businesses wouldn’t exist. Before Google came along, many entrepreneurs simply couldn’t afford to launch a business. Advertising was expensive and inefficient, and media companies did everything in their power to keep it that way. Local businesses and niche businesses might need to reach just 1 person out of 1,000, but advertising rate cards were inevitably based on 1,000 pairs of eyeballs.

Then along comes Google with its search advertising model, and suddenly I can reach my best prospects for just pennies apiece. If I put enough time and effort into my site, I can even reach those people for free by improving my ranking in Google’s “natural” search results.

With the billions it earns on search, Google develops or improves on other technologies that make my business life easier: email, word processing, presentations, navigation, research, chat. Sure, those things existed before, but Google made them cheap — or free — thus making them accessible to bootstrapping startups.

I find it outrageous that Google had to defend its importance to the U.S. economy. This isn’t a case of spewing oil or uncontrolled acceleration. It’s a matter of envy, pure and simple. Google’s competitors want to say that the giant must be cut down to size. But those competitors are giants themselves — in many cases the very giants who made it so expensive to do business in the pre-Google world.

So please spare me the David-vs-Goliath storyline. I am David, and I’m proud to say I’m hooking up with Goliath.