Google’s habit of naming its companies after everyday nouns could alter people’s access to information by dominating search resultsThis week,Google announced a recent holding company, Alphabet, and that will oversee its increasingly disparate industries. No longer will we have to wonder why a search engine company is dabbling in biomedicine or self-driving cars (whether you were actually wondering that,which I wasn’t). Now, the search engine is just one of Alphabet’s many concerns. Related: Inside Alphabet: why Google rebranded itself and what happens next Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com