why Alphabet sucks while Google used to rock? and their new motto "stock-market capitalization at any cost"

When Google became Alphabet, the rationale seemed simple: that a company of companies can innovate faster than a single large beast. But that’s only the start.

“It’s kind of counterintuitive,” Google cofounder Larry Page remarked a couple of years ago. “Normally in a business, you think about, ‘What’s the adjacent thing that I can do?’ But maybe you can actually do more projects that are less related to each other.”

Back then, Page was explaining why his company—whose mission, officially, is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful—had expanded to address everything from teaching automobiles to drive to researching ways to extend the human life span. At the time, the insight seemed classic Page, a heartfelt defense of unconventional thinking. Today it feels like something more: a premonition of perhaps the most radical, labyrinthine corporate restructuring of the digital era.

Page released a letter last August announcing the reconfiguring of Google into a conglomerate called Alphabet. It described Alphabet as a new holding company that would be composed of independent operating units. The Google search engine and related businesses—including Android, Gmail, and YouTube, to name a few—would be just one of them, and although it wasn’t initially clear, Alphabet would be home to nine other companies, including Calico (the health care company whose goal is to lengthen life expectancy), Verily (the home of the company’s “smart” contact lens), X (its R&D arm), DeepMind (artificial intelligence), and Access (all of the company’s high-speed Internet initiatives). In February, Alphabet added its 11th unit when it elevated the think tank/tech incubator formerly known as Google Ideas into its own entity called Jigsaw.

"We are excited about…

• Getting more ambitious things done.
• Taking the long-term view.
• Empowering great entrepreneurs and companies to flourish.
• Investing at the scale of the opportunities and resources we see.
• Improving the transparency and oversight of what we’re doing.(transparency=nothing is seen)
• Making Google even better through greater focus(profits)
• And hopefully… as a result of all this, improving the lives of as many people as we can."/I do not know about this .
• every technology is  double edged, previously i used to call people and ask for directions to their house before   visiting them . in spite of directions  I still sometimes  had to ask  strangers and  neighbours for directions now with  gooogle maps  all I do is  turn right  then  a right  and  then  another right again !

 5 years ago When a contributor used to contact the translate team  they used to get a response at least within a week but nowadays it looks like  even when the web forums are full of complaints about some major problem the company as well as the technical assistance people Seem to act like that is no such problem which is typical ostrich mentality of any overgrown and   uncaring  large Corporation.

For example they suddenly decided to restrict the number of words which can be translated.

I could understand that they are now to restrict some in order to conserve the resources ( they have only 97+ billions of cash in hand !)  which itself is quite dubious. Even when multiple requests have been made my contribution to have worked at improving the translation of languages which are less used on the internet there seems to be absolutely no response.

the left hand doesn't seem to be knowing what the right hand is doing. it should be quite simple and obvious 4 people to know that in order to edit a particular non-english / romanized language we need that particular input Gadget available  on the side of the frame where the editing needs to be done, it's been more than 6 months and at least six request made for this and absolutely there is no response.

voice recognition typing is available for Hindi but this is not available in the translator toolkit!,blogger,or gmail!

This is more like the thumb not knowing what the index finger is doing

This is more like the thumb not knowing what the index finger is doing

And it is very appropriate That the spell checker suggest “ do you mean annoying” 4” knowing what the” That is very deep mind indeed!

one of my relatives gave me Nexus 5 phone which was working okay for about a month and then suddenly it started having a problem which has made it almost useless. I am talking about and blank dark screen when a call comes in the only way you can respond to t that call is  by switching off the phone and switching it on and if you are lucky and extremely fast with your fingers you may be able to go to the call in progress otherwise you'll have to call them back.

this problem has been going on for the last two years at least according to the postings on the web forums but so far if you go to the Nexus help  page on Google there is no mention of a solution. I may just have to ditch this Nexus phone and go back to my  old HTC.
So instead of doing "noevil"
put up this slogan
 "stock-market capitalization at any cost"