Alphabet Inc .: This is really behind Google

Alphabet Inc. is the parent company to which Google belongs. Together with Apple, Amazon and Facebook, it is one of the most valuable companies in the world. In this practical tip you will find the most important information about Google's parent company.

This is how Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. was born

Alphabet Inc. is a listed company that was founded in October 2015 following a Google restructuring. The most important information:

• Google itself has existed since September 1998 and was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
• The company has grown rapidly over time and has also bought up other companies, such as YouTube.
• In order for Google to focus on its core business and pursue higher goals, the company had to become "leaner". With this in mind, Alphabet Inc. was announced in August 2015. In October of the same year, Google's shares were converted 1 to 1 into Alphabet shares. The two Google founders and bosses took over the management of the new group.
• The newly created Google LLC is the largest subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and includes the main internet services of the previous company (including Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail) and the Android operating system.
• The official website of Alphabet is abc.xyz and the company has also reserved abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com for itself. The URL alphabet.com was already assigned to a BMW subsidiary and abc.com is used by the American Broadcasting Company.
• The company is based in Mountain View in Silicon Valley (California, USA).

These companies belong to Alphabet Inc. and Google LLC

According to founder Larry Page, Alphabet is a "collection of companies" - with Google being the largest. The companies are divided as follows (as of October 2019):

• Also belong to Google : the Internet services from Google (Search, Ads, Maps, Cloud, Gmail etc.), the operating system Android, the hardware departments of Google (Chromecast, Pixel etc.) as well as the companies YouTube, HTC (in part), reCaptcha, FeedBurner
• Belong to Alphabet : Access & Energy (internet network), Calico (biotechnology), Chronicle (cybersecurity), Deepmind (artificial intelligence), Capital (bank), Google Fiber (fiber optic network), Google Ventures (venture capital company), Jigsaw (technology incubator, formerly Google Ideas), Loon (internet networks via floating balloons), Sidewalk Labs (innovation in urban development), Verily (health technology), Waymo (autonomous cars), Wing (delivery drones) and X (research department of Alphabet)