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by bruce511 1694 days ago
While you are technically correct, people use Google to refer to all Alphabet properties.

Ask 100 people "who owns YouTube? " - how many say Google, how many say Alphabet?

I think the parents point is that the entity legally known as Alphabet, is colloquially referred to as Google, even when not referring to the subsidiary known as Google.