Bronze was important in the bronze age.
Industry was important in the industrial age.
It might be accurate to say we live in an information age.
Google initially gained success through indexing of information in a meaningful way.
It is possible that formulating a business strategy to analyze, index or array information in a way to make complex data human intuitive is a good basis for developing methods to make more money?
These are under review under the topic of Big Data. Analysis of data is done with special statistical algorithms. And Google is one of the companies that made the most of this work.
There are many issues in the IT sector to make money. But you have to build a good team for it.