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0 pointskyrra10y ago0 comments

Look at the companies that are non-Google entities (the ones under Alphabet that aren't under Google):

* Google X - moonshot projects that aren't software centric.

* Google Fiber - mainly a infrstructure setup. May share some stuff in piper.

* Google Ventures - investment arm, not code related.

* Google Capital - more investment stuff.

* Calico - R&D for biotech.

Anything that would be software centric will probably still live under Google inc. As well, you are forgetting so many products that Google has. There are various lists of them out there [0][1].

[0] http://www.google.com/about/products/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

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QuercusMax10y ago

Don't forget Google Life Sciences -- we have lots of software. (The team I'm on is 100% software, and we're around 25 people split among 3 sub-teams.) All our code is in piper, and depends heavily on the rest of the google infrastructure.

ocdtrekkie10y ago

Is Google going to split this out of their infrastructure, or is this whole separation between "Alphabet" companies and "Google" really just a marketing ploy for no change at all?

QuercusMax10y ago

At least as far as Google Life Sciences is concerned, there are multiple reasons that are known internally (at least within GLS) that I cannot comment on at this time.

An astute observer may be able to come up with some plausible reasons (at least for GLS) as to why such an arrangement would be desirable.

As far as splitting up the infrastructure, we're still going to depend on Google infrastructure and use their services where it makes sense.

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0 pointskyrra10y ago0 comments

Look at the companies that are non-Google entities (the ones under Alphabet that aren't under Google):

* Google X - moonshot projects that aren't software centric.

* Google Fiber - mainly a infrstructure setup. May share some stuff in piper.

* Google Ventures - investment arm, not code related.

* Google Capital - more investment stuff.

* Calico - R&D for biotech.

Anything that would be software centric will probably still live under Google inc. As well, you are forgetting so many products that Google has. There are various lists of them out there [0][1].

[0] http://www.google.com/about/products/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

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QuercusMax10y ago

ocdtrekkie10y ago

Is Google going to split this out of their infrastructure, or is this whole separation between "Alphabet" companies and "Google" really just a marketing ploy for no change at all?

QuercusMax10y ago

At least as far as Google Life Sciences is concerned, there are multiple reasons that are known internally (at least within GLS) that I cannot comment on at this time.

An astute observer may be able to come up with some plausible reasons (at least for GLS) as to why such an arrangement would be desirable.

As far as splitting up the infrastructure, we're still going to depend on Google infrastructure and use their services where it makes sense.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse