Verily, which besides solving ageing also offers various diagnostics, signed $50m-worth of contracts for covid-19 testing during the pandemic, a tidy sum but chump change next to Alphabet's total annual revenues of nearly $260bn.

Verily 除了解决衰老问题还提供各种诊断，在大流行期间签署了价值 5000 万美元的 covid-19 测试合同， 这是一笔不小的数目， 但与 Alphabet 近 2600 亿美元的年总收入相比微不足道。