[mattbrewsbytes]

Alphabet has a board of directors with 11 people [0]. They would have to collectively decide to stop making billions of dollars. I don't think this would ever happen. I don't think any publicly traded company that was profitable has ever done this.

Pretend we are assuming something happened and the board agreed to dissolve the corporation. They would need to sell assets, pay debts, layoff everyone and pay stockholders. People that hold stock would probably make a lot of money. Smaller/other services that exist now would swoop in for the market share. It would be a feeding frenzy. Sure your Bing search results wouldn't be the same as Google's but you bet Microsoft would amp up marketing and let the tech catch up later.

One actual possibility is anti-trust laws kick in for something and Alphabet is required to split up. Then you have a bunch of smaller Alphabets running around and I bet the unprofitable things might get shut down as part of that.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817916...