10 of Google’s smartest and wildest new projects - MarketWatch

10 of Google's smartest and wildest new projects - MarketWatch

4,507 -27.22 -0.60% S&P 500 1,921 -6.09 -0.32% 11:02 A.M. ET 11:00 A.M. ET 10:58 A.M. ET 10:52 A.M. ET 10:51 A.M. ET Share From spoons to contact lenses to Internet balloons, Google/Alphabet is on the verge of changing how we live By JuricaDujmovic Columnist Most people know Google as the world's most widely used search engine. (It handles more than 3 billion searches a day.) But Google Search, although revolutionary when it was released, is just one of many projects launched by the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. The thing that separates Google from other giant technology companies is the sheer number of projects it's involved in. They range from Internet-broadcasting balloons to self-driving cars, and they're the main reason Google underwent a major reorganization last year, when it became a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -1.19% along with quite a few other companies tied to it. This helped Google to focus more on the Internet-service business,

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