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Not sure if this is a non-story re: it being a holding group or what. Markets have deemed it a story though.
Seems a bit pointless and equally brave.
Google = Alphabet
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Not sure if this is a non-story re: it being a holding group or what. Markets have deemed it a story though.
Seems a bit pointless and equally brave.
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Will nobody think of the potato shapes? 
Good to see the .xyz domain being used
I suppose it is bit of both, equally i think its good sense, I guess Google has become so much more, so much bigger and diverse, its no longer the search engine its so so much more, I guess they are just allowing the Web based side to regain its identity, and the parent company can be free to be dynamic and grow without risk of its other ventures defining the google name.
Plus that domain name is awesome!
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Alphabet will be the umbrella company, Google will remain....
There is no story... Unless you believe they'll dump the Google name and screw with everyone's mind. Google has become a staple term in the English language!
There is no story... Unless you believe they'll dump the Google name and screw with everyone's mind. Google has become a staple term in the English language!
See the link above... they're making some entities, unrelated to google's business, separate organisations with their own CEOs under alphabet. It also means that Sundar, who they seem to have groomed to take over, can now be CEO of Google while they retain oversight and can develop other rather different businesses that interest them.
Why specifically .xyz? I think it's one of the naffer gTLDs that have been introduced. abc.xyz is a lovely domain but for obvious reasons; a random domain on .xyz would still look a bit cheap. I recently purchased an .io domain for a personal webserver as "io" is loosely computing related.
It's a tax dodge.
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Google it.
I've got a .xyz domain I want to use for a maths/stats related personal website.
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It basically a holding company. Joe public will not notice a blind bit of difference.
I don't think it's that much of a non-story. I find it interesting that the founders have chosen to take charge of a new 'holding' company instead. I've read in the past that Sundar has been more and more in charge of the day to day, but I think with this, he is more in-charge and can decide the direction of the company, including changing it (albeit not radically) if he so wishes. To me, it shows that the core offering of Google is no longer Larry and Sergey's 'baby', and they are delegating away that responsibility while they focus on other aspects of the business.
How much of a difference it will make, only time will tell, but I do think that changes could happen now, particularly if Sundar has something in mind for what Google is doing.
How much of a difference it will make, only time will tell, but I do think that changes could happen now, particularly if Sundar has something in mind for what Google is doing.
they arnt google will stay google, but all thier weird and wonderful companies and creations wond be they can be branded other stuff and avoid risking smearing the google name when thier experimental whatchumacall it flunks etc
