I believe they'll settle on splitting out Youtube - which I believe makes perfect sense and from a rev/valuation perspective, would be a top 20 company.
I found the post interestingly personable, something that I don't often find with Google. I've used Google Scholar for many years, before I used Elsevier and it was a gamechanger.
Consider using a low code platform to test your thesis first. Use a platform like Budibase or something, that's open source, you can self-host and use your own database for security reasons.
https://github.com/Budibase/budibase