Interesting. I suppose they'd fail PG's test of owning your own .com.
Looks like they're on abc.xyz.
I actually tried registering that domain some months ago. It was taken. Dammit.
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#112Probably was done to be ahead of apple and amazon in the yellow pages.
What's a yellow page?
A directory of businesses, like a phone book for businesses instead of people[0].
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#113They don't even own alphabet.com. Not signaling strength (sarcasm).
Also, feel bad for the owners of that domain as it is effectively being DDoS'ed.
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#114https://www.google.com/search?q=abc.xyz No Alphabet there.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wave, Plus, Glasses at least. If we are to include less ambitious stuff, Google Video, Orkut, Chromebooks (never went far), Reader, Google Code, Dart, nothing much came out of Morotola, etc. And let's see were those "self driving cars" will go, market-wise...
None of them are moonshots, I thought that the moonshot part is the one under the X Labs Umbrella Dart and Chromebooks failures? Since when
Since Dart never went anywhere adoption-wise, and even abandoned plans for its own VM in browsers (not to mention its purpose obsoleted by the announcement of WebAssembly -- since devs will be able to use ports of much more established languages for web programming).
And since Google-made Chromebooks never sold well, and those by third parties (Acer, Samsung, etc) don't make much money for their manufacturers and no money at all for Google, and all constrained to the niche educational market (schools buying them for their students).
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#116https://www.google.com/search?q=abc.xyz No Alphabet there.
Inside my bubble, they're 6th. Outside, 4th. Google is fast.
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#117At last, reversing Jobs' advice to combine everything, returning to the original idea of trying lots of things. Maybe 20% time will see a resurgence, too? Bonus: small, separate entities makes it easier to tackle new opportunities (which start small) that wouldn't move the needle for Google - as per Christensen.
> We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion users, like Google Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and Android.
Seems disingenuous, since YouTube and Android (at least) were acquisitions.
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#118I'm cool with it. "Google+ Photos" and "Google+ Hangouts" being separated into "Google Photos" and "Hangouts" helps with clarity. So does splitting Google (Google X, Nest, Google research stuff, Google Ventures) up into purposeful, yet distinct, companies.
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#119So all google divisions are now individual companies inside a conglomerated called Alphabet where Larry is the CEO and Sergei the President. Sundar Pichai is now the new CEO of Google. Is that right? Why do you think they are moving this way? Regulations? Taxes? What about Eric Schmidt? I don't know much about trading, but look at that "after hours" spike! http://postimg.org/image/ho5ecyr99/ EDIT: All google subsidia…
I didn't read it that way. All of Google's subsidiaries are subsidiaries of Alphabet, as is Google. But divisions inside of Google (Android, Youtube, &c) remain Google. The big news is that Larry and Sergey are stepping back into a more Warren and Charlie kind of role, and Sundar Pichai is taking over as CEO of Google. My question is, what does "slimmed down" Google mean?
> My question is, what does "slimmed down" Google mean?
It means Google minus all the parts that are now their own direct subsidiaries of Alphabet.
Which, previously, were all part of Google. Hence, "slimmed down".
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#120I do not know much about big business financials, but this seems like a move that would allow Google to separate its experimental or research-based businesses that do not turn a profit from its giant bulging revenue beasts. It will likely allow Google to post better quarterlies, and push their stock up even higher. Appointing Sundar as CEO also allows them to focus more on the cool stuff in Alphabet and let Sundar ru…
Except it is the conglomerate that is going to trade on the market, not the individual business units. They are changing their corporate structure to be more like GE or Lockheed. All the units will still be summed together come earnings time.
According to the blog post the earnings reports will be separated by division.