Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit

• Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Except all of Alphabet entreprises have a name starting by Google. (Or at least strongly evocating it, in the case of Gmail.)

  We can’t say the same about Meta. Instagram isn’t called “Facebook Gallery”, and Threads isn’t called “Facebook Short Messages”. (And Oculus didn’t become “Facebook VR”, just Meta.)

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  • dariusj18@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, those are Google products, Alphabet is Google’s parent company and also holds many other companies like Waze and Doubleclick.

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    • Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Except the team behind Waze was merged with the one behind Google Maps, they just keep the two apps separated (for now) to prevent any backlash. Same with Doubleclick and Google Adds. (In fact, I’ve got the impression Doubleclick became nothing more than an alias for Google Adds. And for quite some time, I might add.)

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