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calebrob6 | 6 years ago

Google Communications says here that Verily (a sister company to Google) is working on a small scale tool for the Bay area: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906

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tathougies|6 years ago

Verily is an Alphabet subsidiary. To the majority of Americans, 'Alphabet' is Google, because Alphabet is the successor organization to Google the company. All these ridiculous technicalities are nuts. No one cares that Alphabet decided to reorganize to maximize shareholder value. Alphabet is literally Google, and still trades under that ticker (GOOG). When people talk about Google the company, they mean Alphabet, and you know that.

Like, most people on HN talk about how 'Google Fiber' is part of Google, but really it's not, it's part of Alphabet, which owns the trademark Google. Or again, when GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) invests in a company, people say 'Google invested in <blah> company', because GV is alphabet, which is Google because... Google the company means Alphabet in common parlance. Stop nitpicking.

umanwizard|6 years ago

The important part is not google vs alphabet, it’s the fact that their site will only be available for the Bay Area.

asdfasgasdgasdg|6 years ago

You:

> for the Bay area

Them (in the Tweet you linked to):

> ... with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.

Turing_Machine|6 years ago

Google Communications says here that "Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information."

https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497

zaroth|6 years ago

Will everyone who blasted Trump in this entire post apologize? Don’t hold your breathe.