Google has grown so big so fast and now has fingers in so many pies it was starting to confuse investors.<br /><br /> So in a shock announcement on Monday night the Californian giant unveiled major restructuring and the creation of a new company, Alphabet. Google will just be a branch of this new entity.<br /><br /> Google will be the biggest branch, for sure, but will be recentred around its core internet activity. It will also keep the research skunkworks, and the online advertising business.<br /><br /> Star products like its mapping systems, YouTube and Android stay with Google. <br /><br /> But the boss changes. Google will be run by Sundar Pichai, until now co-founder Larry Page’s presumed heir. This 43-year-old Indian-born engineer created Chrome and Android, but the public hardly knows him.<br /><br /> Page becomes the boss of Alphabet along with his co-pioneer Sergey Brin.<br /><br /> The businesses the most removed from Google’s origins will now be clearly defined and separate, although subsidiary to, the mothership; things like Calic
