Unlike controlling the House or Senate, having a majority of governorships has little practical effect, because governors operate independentlyofeachother.
Among other things, this means designing different parts of its system say, the bit that recommends videos and the bit that lets users search for them so they function independentlyofeachother, making it less likely all will keel over at once.
There is actually a direct line from Google Glasses back to the 1860s, when two young inventors, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, working separately and independentlyofeachother both designed devices that could allow people to talk with eachother electronically and in real time.