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Originally Posted by BobK  I imagine this term was coined on the analogy of the BE idiom "the Rolls Royce of" (referring to an iconic high-quality motor car brand). Google shows "Google of" as outnumbering "Rolls Royce of" by about 3 hits to 2; but that corpus is rather biased.  . BNC has "the Rolls Royce of" outnumbering "the Google of" by 4 hits to 0. And even Google, if restricted to UK pages, shows RR as outnumbering G.
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I had not thought of "the Rolls Royce of" but rather, "the Cadillac of". ;)
After reading your comparison above, I just checked for "the Cadillac of"
and Google shows 10 million for it versus about 5.6 for "the Rolls Royce of".