How Google became the world’s most valuable company – explained in one simple image

Last Updated: February 1, 2016By

In the light of the Google tax debacle, there could be only one answer to the question posed by the BBC News website.

Google has become the world’s most valuable company by creating favourable relationships with national governments. Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than by that between the UK government (on the left in the image that follows) and Google itself, which may be summed up thus:

The Conservative Government's attitude to big business, explained in one simple image.

The Conservative Government’s attitude to big business, explained in one simple image.

It doesn’t sell anything you could pick up and put in your pocket. We never pay it any money directly.

Yet now, after its latest earnings report, Google’s parent company Alphabet has a market capitalisation larger than Apple’s as shares rose sharply in after-hours trading. That makes it the most valuable company in the world.

Source: How did Google become the world’s most valuable company? – BBC News

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  1. David February 2, 2016 at 2:51 pm - Reply

    Two pigs would surely have been a more appropriate image – or, perhaps, one man and one pig?

    • Mike Sivier February 2, 2016 at 4:08 pm - Reply

      It’s a terrific image, though, isn’t it?

  2. mohandeer February 2, 2016 at 5:03 pm - Reply

    Hahahaaaaa! “Osborne” on the left, really is up Google’s @$$.

  3. Gary Burley February 2, 2016 at 9:49 pm - Reply

    my question is why george osbourne is so eager to ram his snout up googles arse unless it has something to do with googles search engine stopping us from looking into anything Tory without a lot of dead end , lack of predictive help or loss of results to show zero. cash for bias, seeing as google are too big a company for the tories to lean on threateningly like the BBC. more carrot, less stick

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