Are We Witnessing Alphabet Transform Into the Old IBM?

The future of Google's parent company's looks murkier than ever.Alphabet (GOOG -0.93%) (GOOGL -0.93%) is often considered a reliable blue chip tech stock. It owns Google, the world's most widely used search engine; Android, the largest mobile operating system; Chrome, which dominates the web browser market; and YouTube, the top streaming video platform with over 2.7 billion monthly active users. It also provides a broad range of market-leading cloud-based productivity and infrastructure services.Over the pa ...