Big news in the tech world, Google is no more! Well, it's still there but is no longer its own company. The company had created a new parent company called Alphabet Inc who will be in charge of Google as well as other smaller entities that were a part of Google which will no supposedly be independent companies. Apparently this was to allow better organization by allowing each branch of Google other than the main Search engine to become more specific and managed.

I don't really like the idea from a viewer standpoint, even changing the stock name sounds bad. What do you think?

zanderlex : Well as long as the search engine stays the same and we don't have to pay for the search engine then I am okay with it. How did you find out about this and some other things too? Some things you make threads for I am totally befuddled about how you found out about it in the first place because it seems some things you make threads for are totally pushed under the rug in the public, or at least I never heard of these things before now. Is  everyone aware of this? Do you go to secret websites to find out this information?

I'm kind of surprised. This is certainly an odd move to say the least. I just hope it doesn't mess with Android's merchant arrangement and cause publishing for Android a pain like iOS.

happiness7 : Well, I do have secret club meetings, and most of the world will know tomorrow morning.

Eirinn : Well, I believe this would make Android and Chrome their own company, so management could be easier meaning more people knowing what they are doing and knowing whats best.

Yeah, but who's to say whether Android will do something stupid with the setup or not? That's what worries me.

On the other hand, Android could become more awesome and cooperative even. Time will tell, I suppose.

zanderlex : I heard about this and thought that this was very interesting. Now, Android and Chrome remain part of Google. They won't become separate companies.
happiness7 : This news was on almost every single tech site yesterday and today.

damn it I was hoping Google had gone then
they'll still be spying on us.

[quote=StapleButter]If Google was a government, they'd make privacy illegal.[/quote]

mario102 : I tried searching it up on Google's search engine, but I didn't find any information on it yesterday. Can you post a link to one of those tech sites with the information? I would like to read about it and learn more about it since I search about any educational stuff on Google's search engine and then I have other search engines on my computers like "Plus- Network", but personally I like Google's search engine the most. These other search engines on my computers appear as default pages on each browser I have on my computers and I have three to four different browsers on my computers. 

happiness7 : That's why you use Bing. You don't have to go to a tech site, just any newspaper or news station.

zanderlex : Do you or can you just search Google for Bing and be able to use Bing from there, or do you have to download the search engine before being able to use it?

Google started as a company that built a search engine, but over time it's become a lot more than that. The company has created or acquired a number of other hugely popular internet products, including YouTube, Android, and Gmail. More recently, the company has begun pouring resources into projects like self-driving cars, anti-aging technology, and balloon-powered internet access.

The founders believe that these projects have become too diverse and sprawling for a single operating company to manage all of them effectively. Different projects require different types of leaders, different company cultures, and different types of resources. So they're creating Alphabet as a holding company that will oversee all of these different ventures while allowing each to have more independence.

Alphabet is just a holding company that allows each entity to act as it's own company and operate independently, so I see no negative and you should see no negative changes in the servicesthey provide. This is common when companies get this huge, to try and protect themselves from Anti-Trust lawsuits, similar to what plagued Microsoft in the 90's when they were trying to acquire a ton of various tech companies.

So I feel the title of this post is sort of misguided. The name "Google" isn't going by the wayside. Your search engine isn't changing their name. It's just that they will be a subsidiary of a larger parent company. Which again, is fairly common for larger companies.

happiness7 : You don't download anything, and you don't search for anything either, Bing is a search engine.

I advise anyone who's confused about why Google is doing this, can refer to this well done article that spells out the purpose.

http://www.cnet.com/news/alphabet-lets-google-be-more-ambitious-and-more-boring/?tag=nl.e703&s_cid=e703&ttag=e703&ftag=CAD090e536

From my perspective, it's done not only to protect themselves legally (as I said before) but also to encourage stock growth for a company that's been stagnant with a VERY pricey stock.

zanderlex : Then how do you get search results from Bing if you don't put any keywords into the search engine? Is it one of those search engines that give news right away when you login to their search engine?

Jordanv78 : Thank you Jordan for clearing things up about what is going on with google . Do you know if holding companies such as Alphabet for Google have top managing and power over what these independent companies of Google decide to create next in their companies?

happiness7 : It's just a regular search engine. You type whatever you want into Bing. I only use Bing since its a better search engine than Google.

Also the owners of Google are the owners of Alphabet.

happiness7 : The current top leaders in Google will transition to the top leaders of Alphabet (not including the tech people actually making whatever product/service/software/etc) Alphabet will be the holding company that will have the overall say, but the leaders of this company understand the Google brand and what it brings. The new CEO is the guy that was the top manager of the Chrome Browser project several years ago and look how popular Chrome has turned out to be.

zanderlex :
Jordanv78 :
Thank you both for the information! But why name the holding company Alphabet? Is there any fun facts or anything to why Google would now name their company Alphabet? It just seems like a pretty random name for Google? I mean I was thinking it was because they probably have so many independent companies for each letter of the alphabet lol.

happiness: It's because letters make a language and communication.

zanderlex : So it is because Google is like searching every letter of the Alphabet on the search engine and the letters or keywords are the language being communicated to the search engine or other intelligible websites to create common understanding between people with the use of an Alphabet. Is that what you mean?

Why did I say tech sites? Because right here explains it all.