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What you said is all true, which is what makes the focus on Alphabet/Google mixup so out of touch. There are so many other problems, that focusing on a mistake about the details of Google's corporate structure seems like focusing on the alignment of the deck-chairs on the Titanic.

I will very readily admit that I've not made a huge distinction between Alphabet, Google, and Verily. And for that matter Waymo, the Google self-driving car project. Or is that the Alphabet self-driving car project. I have no idea, without checking Wikipedia, if Project Loon (Internet-via-weather-balloon) is a Project of Google or an Alphabet subsidiary, or some other legal shenanigans.

There are so many other things going wrong right now that I am severely disappointed that the Verge wasted any words talking about the distinction between Alphabet and Google, no matter how much I may, or may not, like the individual that confused the two.