A collection of letters

Google's Alphabet: your guide to 81 parts

What exactly makes up the pieces of Google's Alphabet? Bloomberg broke down the full list... alphabetically of course.

What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet instead.

Alphabet Inc. replaced Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet.

Why call it Alphabet? Because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search!