Is this tech giant still a top pick for the next decade or three? Here's what long-term thinkers need to know.I thought of Alphabet (GOOG 3.05%) (GOOGL 2.90%) as an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist long before I saw it as a business or an investment idea.The underlying Google organization started its game-changing search engine in the late 1990s. I studied information science and AI at the time (go Noles!), and was fascinated with Google's search engine. Older alternatives like Lycos, WebCrawler, and ...