[jrockway]

Yeah, I don't think these holding companies mean much to people inside or outside the company. No random person on the street knows what Alphabet or Meta is, they know Google and Facebook. I certainly don't put "Alphabet" on my resume. I worked there and I don't even know what it meant exactly.

[rococode]

There's a difference, though.

Meta is a renaming. There is no "Facebook" company anymore. It's all Meta. Meta has a product named "Facebook", not a company named "Facebook".

Alphabet is a holding company. "Google" still exists as a standalone company, it's just owned by Alphabet.

[martyvis]

I'm not sure about that. Whenever our public TV or radio station, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, makes reference to Google or Facebook in a corporate sense they always clearly mention the parent company.