Alphabet owns the Google search engine and became one of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalization.
Alphabet Inc. is the parent company created in 2015 through a restructuring of Google. Google remained the largest business within the new holding company, including search, advertising, YouTube, Android, and cloud services.
The restructuring separated Google’s core internet businesses from other ventures, such as health technology and research projects. Alphabet’s market value is therefore based on the combined expectations for Google and its other subsidiaries, rather than on the search engine alone.
Alphabet is regularly included among the world’s largest companies by market capitalization. Its valuation is influenced by online advertising, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, consumer devices, and the future growth prospects of businesses beyond traditional web search.