Comment by michaelcampbell
8 years ago
"everyone"? I suspect of the non-echo-chamber populous that is not on this website, 99.9% of them would "know" the search engine Google as "the company" Google.
8 years ago
"everyone"? I suspect of the non-echo-chamber populous that is not on this website, 99.9% of them would "know" the search engine Google as "the company" Google.
I think you've misunderstood me, as that largely is my point. Though the company is now called Alphabet, everyone still knows them as Google.
I think you've misunderstood the parent. Everyone knows the search engine is Google. If you say "Nest" or "Waymo" or "Verily", people think of those as... Nest and Waymo and Verily. The same way when you say "Instagram" or "Whatsapp" the average person certainly does not think of Facebook.
>If you say "Nest" or "Waymo" or "Verily", people think of those as... Nest and Waymo and Verily.
Yes, and if I said the company that owns those was Alphabet, almost nobody would know what I was saying. Everyone would understand if I said Google owned them, though they actually don't.