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From the abc.xyz source code: Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new eff
by rbinv 11y ago
From the abc.xyz source code:
Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort<a href="http://www.hooli.xyz/" http://www.hooli.xyz/" target="_blank" class="hidden-link">.</a>
- echelon 11y agoI wondered if the reorg would have any impact on the stock price. Given this joke, now I really wonder. Are we sure it isn't April 1st? Are we sure this press release isn't a hoax? This is so wild I'm having trouble believing any of it.
- davidcgl 11y agoIt's an easter egg. It's a pretty common thing Google does.
- diminish 11y agoAlphabet is only missing a startup accelerator, why wouldn't Sergey and Larry now focus on earlier stage themselves? All those ambitious things can be achieved better by a lot of startupa competing in parallel.
- JacobAldridge 11y agoV is for Ventures and Capital W is for Wing X is for X Lab Y is for ...
- matmann2001 11y agoYoutube
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- einrealist 11y agoYolo
- zapu 11y agoYo.
- sospep 11y agoy is for ycombinator - a startup accelerator owned by google - hmmmmmmm
- tmpforareason 11y agoA - AirBnb U - Uber P - Pinterest or Palantir (they need to work hard) May be they should create a sub companies for the collisions. Btw, i was thinking Amazon A2Z was doing this virtually.
- rrss1122 11y agoOne thing I've heard is that this would help them in terms of taxes, allowing them to write off projects that don't make money, although I'm not entirely clear on how Alphabet would accomplish this. That would be no joke if that was a reason to do it.
- TheOsiris 11y agocouldn't they do that now anyway with all being under the same entity. I don't think this helps with taxes (at least not in this regard). Either way, WOW!
- rrss1122 11y agoI see. I wasn't entirely clear on it, and I guess the source I got it from wasn't either.
- Jarwain 11y agoThe first thing I thought of involved the regulations and other troubles that Google was facing in the EU. Those troubles seemed to summarize as "Google is too big and is taking advantage of its large market share". Alphabet looks like it'll fracture the google businesses more, which might help reduce the issues they're facing in the EU. But that's just my best guess
- gutnor 11y agoWell, Google is already quite fractured in the EU - it has something like 20 subsidiaries, one in most EU countries[0] ? That is also a common (mandatory?) setup, for multinational companies to have a local subsidiary in every country where they operate. I guess institutions like the EU must be handle that and focus on the activity independently of the fine details of the company structure, so that the restructuring would not really help or hinder. [0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312507044494/dex2101.htm http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125070...
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- tim333 11y ago>... any impact on the stock price. It's up 5.88% (or $26bn) in after hours trading.
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- nicolethenerd 11y agoHooli XYZ is a reference to the HBO show Silicon Valley. It has no relation to Google (other than that Hooli is basically a fictional parody of Google). Looks like some developer added that to this press release as an easter egg.
- hartator 11y agoI feel Google shouldn't stop trying to pretend they are still cool hype startup, that just come up as fake. I also feel from a PR perspective it might in fact hurt their image.
- wutbrodo 11y agoI like when random people try to pretend that they've defined cool, who has it, and what constraints it puts on their behavior. EDIT: hartator disingenuously changed the content of his comment to be more measured. The original comment was "I like when Google tries to pretend they're still cool".
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- panorama 11y agoUse https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/ not the blogspot post
- dates 11y agoGoogle can't be Hooli! Facebook is already Hooli... just compare the Nucleus logo to the React logo...
- pto0239hn 11y agoIs it any coincidence that Facebook released http://nuclide.io http://nuclide.io?
- josuedev 11y agoKeep an eye on this: https://abc.xyz/jobs https://abc.xyz/jobs -> https://abc.xyz/about/careers/ https://abc.xyz/about/careers/
- mikek 11y agoIt seems to me that their domain name (https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/), and maybe even the corporate name, was chosen to imitate Hooli XYZ.
- m_mueller 11y agoPardon my ignorance, but what's hooly.xyz? Google's innovation lab?
- ojbyrne 11y agohttp://hooli.xyz http://hooli.xyz is a company on the HBO show "Silicon Valley" - modeled after, and parodying Google.
- mthoms 11y agoThere's an Easter Egg on the site where one of the periods is a link to http://www.hooli.xyz http://www.hooli.xyz . So yeah it was a nod to that for sure. edit: The easter egg is on abc.xyz not the blogspot announcement.
- ignoramous 11y ago.xyz domains are selling at 90% discount, in case anyone is interested.
- Ologn 11y agoYaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out. Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, picka.xyz, icebo.xyz, equino.xyz, mailbo.xyz, postbo.xyz, rolode.xyz, soapbo.xyz, toolbo.xyz, lunchbo.xyz, letterbo.xyz, chatterbo.xyz for about $15 total for all of them. I skipped on conve.xyz, laryn.xyz, proli.xyz, and surta.xyz, which were all open a few minutes ago.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoGlad to see innovation in action. This is the kind of stuff that makes the web worse - domain squatting.
- Ologn 11y ago> Glad to see innovation in action. Thank you! I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again! Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.xyz and a few more. Went on a geometry/graphics kick and snapped up stuff like plotting.xyz and intercepts.xyz as well. I don't make the rules, I just play by them.