BMW owns Alphabet.com and it's not selling it to Google

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discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043152

I’m sure Google did no research whatsoever to see whether <extremely common english word>.com was taken or not. Ha ha, he really got a good jab in there, didn’t he. So clever! :)

Tomorrow's news: Google buys BMW.

My question is, how long before the press stop using "Google's Alphabet" to refer to the new entity. And also how long before Google is referred to as "Alphabet's Google".

I think it will be more like "Google's parent company, Alphabet". And I think when they mention Alphabet it will be along the lines of new ventures.

The reason why is simply - 1) Changing Google to Alphabet is way too confusing.

2) Google is still here and operating as Google for the most part. Only real difference is that most of the R&D tasks not pertaining to its main business structure are placed outside that space. So, what I can recall, things like Google glasses and cars and whatnot will be a project that's under Alphabet.

But seriously, Google will still be referred to as Google. Youtube, Maps, Music is still under the Google business.

Alphabet are for existing/new project (from A to Z (get it!)) that the Google guys (Page, and Brin) wants to pursue. If they are profitable, they may become their own businesses or even put inside the Google brand.

NBD!

Yeah, I don't think that Google is even interested in buying that domain.

heh. remember that Google made bmw a example in the past by removing then from search results because they were serving the Google bot a simplefied version of their site.

What a non-story. I'm glad I use ad-block.

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