{"id":4617,"date":"2015-10-08T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aptgadget.com\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2015-10-08T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:12:58","slug":"google-owns-the-alphabet-no-longer-just-a-company-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/fr\/google-owns-the-alphabet-no-longer-just-a-company-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Google owns the alphabet, no longer just a company name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has spun into Alphabet, its new conglomerate name, in recent weeks. Now, Google has purchased a domain to match the parent company\u2019s new name: the domain is, literally, the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Google acquired the domain <a href=\"http:\/\/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com\">http:\/\/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com<\/a> in recent weeks, although no one knows when the company acquired it. Automobile company BMW owns the site alphabet.com, and Google couldn\u2019t purchase the BMW-owned site (unfortunately). We\u2019re not sure what the search engine giant intends to do with the site, but we\u2019re sure that Google made find some useful purpose for the site \u2013 even if it\u2019s just to provide a new blog for the company\u2019s projects and undertakings, or to allow its umbrella companies such as Nest and Google, among others, to reach customers.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be the case that Google intends to do nothing with the site but wants to purchase it to prevent someone else from exploiting the \u201cAlphabet\u201d name. It is rather clever of Google, though. After all, Mountain View\u00a0is the search engine giant who\u2019s known for its search engine, and, as ruler of all search engines in years past, the company knows how to use searches to its benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The Google alphabet acquisition was first reported by Domain Investing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2015\/10\/08\/google-now-quite-literally-owns-the-alphabet\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has spun into Alphabet, its new conglomerate name, in recent weeks. Now, Google has purchased a domain to match the parent company\u2019s new name: the domain is, literally, the alphabet. Google acquired the domain http:\/\/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com in recent weeks, although no one knows when the company acquired it. Automobile company BMW owns the site alphabet.com, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google owns the alphabet, no longer just a company name - AptGadget.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google acquires an &quot;alphabet&quot; domain to match the new conglomerate name, &quot;Alphabet.&quot; The domain alphabet.com is owned by BMW, leaving Google no choice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/fr\/google-owns-the-alphabet-no-longer-just-a-company-name\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google owns the alphabet, no longer just a company name - 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