Comment by crazygringo
8 years ago
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.