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Am I the only one who laughs when I see, "Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., . . . ."? Umm, who reading this article doesn't know who Google is? That constructio
by ianamartin 10y ago
Am I the only one who laughs when I see, "Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., . . . ."?
Umm, who reading this article doesn't know who Google is? That construction is almost always there to let you know who some no-name subsidiary or division of a much more well-known company is.
In this case it functions in the reverse if at all--reminding people that Alphabet is a thing, in case you didn't know.
Anyway, I just think that's funny.
- rjbwork 10y agoWSJ's primary audience is folks in business or finance. From my understanding, they have automated aggregators and algorithms that consume those articles, and look for constructs like that for tagging/categorization.
- dingdongding 10y agoWell algorithms can be advanced enough to reference Google with Alphabet automatically without putting need to write Alphabet in article itself. I don't think what you're saying is the reason to write it in the article
- acchow 10y agoIf your algorithm can't automatically associate Google with Alphabet without a cue, you have bigger problems.
- dbbk 10y agoI don't think it's funny... it's a business publication. It's not presuming you don't know who Google are. It's just saying they're a unit of Alphabet. There's no harm.