Alphabet owns Google Search and YouTube under its corporate structure.
Alphabet Inc. was created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other businesses. Google became a subsidiary, while its internet products, including Google Search and YouTube, remained central parts of the organization.
The restructuring separated Google’s core internet services from other projects and subsidiaries, such as Waymo and Verily. Sundar Pichai became Google’s chief executive in 2015 and later became Alphabet’s chief executive in 2019.
Alphabet is regularly included among the world’s largest companies by market capitalization because of Google’s advertising business, cloud operations, and widely used consumer services. Alphabet is the corporate parent; Google is the operating company and brand most users encounter.