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 After surpassing $300
for the first time Monday, Google's red-hot stock rose
as high as $309.10 Tuesday afternoon on the Nasdaq Stock
Market. However, investors saw the price as a point to
collect profits, and Google shares fell $2.10 to close
at $302.
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GOOG shares reached
fresh highs on Wednesday after an analyst report raised
the company's price target and advised investors that
the stock has "further to go."
Google's share
price rose $12.05, or 4.35 percent, to $289.32 following
the report from CSFB. CSFB raised its target to $350
from $275.
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GOOG gained 5.7
percent, to close at $255.45 on the Nasdaq on May 23
amid speculation that the stock could be added to the
S&P 500 index. It was the biggest one-day percentage
gain in the last four months. The stocks of Google more
than tripled in value since its initial public offering
in August.
Analysts opined that index needed the
Internet heavyweight "to maintain its relevance” and
they wouldn’t be surprised if Google, given its size,
were to be added to the S&P 500.
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Big
Q1 Profits
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by: NewsProwler on Thursday, April 21, 2005 -
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Google
say:
Revenues in the quarter totaled a record
$1.256 billion, representing a 22% increase over the
fourth quarter of 2004 and a 93% year-over-year
increase.
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Time:
April 21,
2005
4:30PM EST / 1:30PM PST
The live Webcast
of Google's earnings conference call can be accessed at
http://investor.google.com/webcast.
The Webcast version of the conference call will be
available through the same link for approximately two
weeks following the conference call, after which time
Google will include the Webcast in the "archive" section
of the Google Investor Relations website.
For
more financial information about Google, go to the
Google Investor Relations website at http://investor.google.com/.
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According to Google's
latest proxy statement, the search engine's CEO Eric
Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
requested during the second quarter of 2004 that their
salaries be reduced to $1. Prior to that, Schmidt had
been earning an annual salary of $250,000 while Brin and
Page received $150,000 a year.
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A group of Google
executives led by co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page
and chief executive Eric E. Schmidt have cashed in over
US$500 million in Google stock.
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GQ
on GOOG
Posted
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A long
article about how Google ended up being a listed
company, is at GQ .
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Google shares hit $217
when they released their fourth-quarter financials. On
sales of $1 Billion, pro-forma earnings per share was 92
cents, much higher than the 77 cents analysts has
predicted.
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In structuring its
1998 and 2003 equity-compensation plans, Google, the
Internet-search giant, didn't take advantage of a
share-registration escape hatch, a routine
securities-law exemption commonly taken by companies
going public. The exception saves employees, other than
top executives, from having to declare their intent to
sell stock received under such plans.
Lawyers
say it's rare for a company to blow the exemption,
provided by Rule 701 of the Securities Act of 1933. But
sometimes private companies end up being out of
compliance because they don't always have top-notch
legal advice until they decide to tap the equity
markets.
"Rule 701 is supposed to be
idiot-proof," said Anne G. Plimpton, an expert on the
rule, who is about to join the law firm of McDermott
Will & Emery LLP in Boston. "The point is, if you
pay attention to it before the grants have gone too far,
you can fit a huge equity compensation plan within the
parameters of 701."
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SEC filings have
struck something of a nerve inside the company by
offering an unusually candid look into the wealth of
co-workers. That's creating unaccustomed tensions inside
a workplace that has long projected an image of
collegial egalitarianism to the outside world, some
people said.
Since its August initial public
offering, Google has filed documents with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) detailing the
multimillion-dollar stock sales of founders Sergey Brin
and Larry Page, all the way down to the rank and file.
The disclosures have so far affected about 400 of the
company's 3,000 employees
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Marketers who
purchased sponsored listings on Google paid an average
of 54 cents per click in the third quarter, up from 53
cents in the second quarter, according to a new report
by Majestic Research, a New York City financial research
firm.
The report also revealed that Google's
average revenue per query in the third quarter was 9
cents -- which is five times higher than
JupiterResearch's U.S. industry-wide estimate of 1.8
cents per query. JupiterResearch also pegs average cost
per click at just 36 cents, for all U.S. paid search.
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Founders Larry Page
and Sergey Brin plan to sell 7.2 million shares each in
the next 18 months in a move that could net them 1.2
billion dollars apiece, according to documents submitted
to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
CEO Eric Schmidt also said he planned to sell
2.2 million shares, which should net him more than 370
million dollars based on Google's closing price Friday
of 169.40 dollars.
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"[Google] released
some 39.1 million new shares into the market as a
so-called "lockup" period expired for employees and
other insiders. The infusion of stock more than doubles
the amount issued during its public flotation in August,
but still represents a sliver of Google's total 273.4
million shares outstanding. "
"Shares of Google
dropped $11.32, or 6.12 percent, to $173.55 on the
Nasdaq with some 13.5 million shares exchanging hands
around midday. Google has a valuation of about $50
billion, which gives it a market capitalization close or
equal to such corporate luminaries as Walt Disney Co.,
Merrill Lynch & Co., Anheuser-Busch Cos., and
General Motors Corp. "
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GOOG
skyrockets!
Posted by: NewsProwler on Monday,
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Google co-founders
Sergey Brin and Larry Page each saw his net worth jump
$875 million yesterday — to a whopping $6.5 billion
apiece — after Google, the most popular online search
engine, reported blowout results.
Google's
already skyrocketing share price surged another 15
percent yesterday to close at $172.43 in Nasdaq trading.
Earlier in the day, the stock jumped as much as 21
percent.
The stock has more than doubled since
August, when the company first sold shares at $85
through an unusual auction-style IPO.
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Revenue - Revenue in
the quarter totaled a record $805.9 million,
representing a 15 percent increase over the second
quarter of 2004 and a 105 percent year-over-year gain.
This revenue growth reflects strong traffic and
monetization growth in the quarter as well as
advertisers’ growing recognition of the Internet as an
effective advertising medium.
More details
available at Google's
Investor site
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Google has made a
website that provides info for shareholders, like
financial data. Don't expect them to give out any
secrets unless they are forced to...
Google Investor
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Research analysts
associated with five of the investment banks that
managed Google's offering released their first reports
on the company on Tuesday, which was the end of the
government's mandated quiet period.
The analysts
were bullish on Google's shares, which closed at $118.26
on Monday. The shares jumped on Tuesday to $126.86, up
7.3 percent.
Mary Meeker, the Internet industry
analyst at Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter in the
offering, published a model that valued Google shares at
$132 each. Heath Terry, an analyst for Credit Suisse
First Boston, the No.2 underwriter, had a target price
of $145.
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"Close to 4.7 million
shares of Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) owned
by insiders became eligible for sale today, compared
with 19.6 million shares offered in its initial offer.
Normally, the end of a lock-up exerts downward
pressure on a stock as the influx of new shares
threatens to increase supply. Shares of Google
experienced some early morning volatility, but by the
afternoon, they had risen, ending the day at $101.51, up
$1.26, or 1.26%. Volume was a light 7.5 million shares
traded.
...After most IPOs, insiders have to wait
180 days to sell shares. Google decided on a five-part
installment that spreads its 270 million offering over a
total of six months. The next offering will be Nov. 16,
with 39.1 million shares freed for sale. Subsequent
announcements are scheduled for Dec. 15 and Jan. 16,
both for 24.9 million shares, and Feb. 14, with 176.8
million shares eligible for sale.
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GOOG
worth $76??
Posted by: NewsProwler on Thursday,
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Janco Partners
initiated coverage of Google Inc. with a "sell" rating
and a target price of $76, saying while the world's No.
1 Web search provider's fundamentals are strong, its
current stock valuation is too high.
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"After closing higher
each of Google's first three days as a publicly traded
stock, shares in the search engine company were on track
to post a loss Tuesday.
After falling more than
5% early Tuesday, Google recovered slightly to trade at
$105.08, down $4.32 for the day, or nearly 4%.
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I
would expect them to stay around this mark for a while,
jump every time Google makes a bold new announcement
(like Gmail), slowly rise in general, and drop majorly
in the long term when the MSN and Yahoo search engines
get more users.
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It seems that the
shares were worth $100. Unfortunately Google went for a
possible $135 using the dutch auction process, failed,
and ended up selling them for $85. And then the big jump
on the first day of trading, which Google had claimed
they were trying to avoid, happened anyway.
From
Forbes:
Google shares finished the day at $100.34
with more than 22 million shares having changed hands,
making it among the 10 most active issues on the Nasdaq
Stock Market. The closing price was $15.34 higher than
the final IPO price set by the auction, but still lower
than the $108 bottom of the company's initial range.
The stock's rise isn't likely to generate many
complaints at Google, underwriters or anyone else
holding the appreciating stock. But it's a letdown for
the company, which only profits from the 14 million
initial shares it sold at $85 each.
In the end,
the IPO raised $1.67 billion. If the stock had priced at
the high end of the original estimate, at $135 apiece,
the offering would have raised as much as $3.6 billion
and given the company a market capitalization as high as
$36 billion.
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Google Inc., the Web
search engine, slashed the price range Wednesday on its
eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85
and $95 per share from $108 to $135 per share.
Google also said shareholders are reducing the
number of shares they plan to sell to 5.5 million, a
reduction of about 6.1 million shares, or more than 50
percent, in light of the lowered price.
Google
said it still plans to sell about 14.1 million shares.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company
disclosed the changes in a statement posted on its IPO
Web site, http://www.ipo.google.com.
The changes
reduce the maximum size of the IPO to about $1.9
billion, and the potential maximum valuation of the
entire company to less than $26 billion, a decline of
more than $10 billion, based on securities filings.
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"iBetX, Ltd., the
leading online
person-to-person trading exchange
market data shows Google to be over
priced."
Punters believe the opening price will
be around the $90 to $100 mark.
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"Google, the world's
most-used internet search engine, has sold the virtues
of its impending multibillion-dollar float on video to
prospective investors in the United
States.
...The video features Google co-founders
and co-presidents Sergey Brin, 30, and Larry Page, 31,
chief executive Eric Schmidt, 49, and chief financial
officer George Reyes. "
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There
is now an IPO
page at Google
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Google's shares will
be using the symbol GOOG on Nasdaq.
"it plans to
sell 24.6 million shares in its initial public offering
for between $108 and $135 a share, according to a
regulatory filing.
The filing values the company
at as much as $36 billion based on a total of 268.5
million Class A and Class B shares
outstanding
...Google will raise as much as $3.3
billion in selling a 9 percent stake in the
company"
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"Google has revealed
that it has chosen Nasdaq to list its shares, favouring
the technology-led exchange over larger rival the New
York Stock Exchange."
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Official Press Release
reads:
Google Acquires Picasa
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif. - July 13, 2004 - Google Inc. today
announced it acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena,
Calif.-based digital photo management company. Financial
terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Picasa
enables users to easily manage and share digital
photographs, and its technologies complement Google's
ongoing mission to organize the world's information and
make it universally
accessible and useful," said
Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product Management.
"Picasa is an innovator in the field of digital
photography, and we're excited that the Picasa team is
joining
Google."
Picasa was founded in
October 2001. In May 2004, Picasa announced a technology
partnership with Google's Blogger service to make
publishing digital photos with Blogger faster and
easier. Further product integration plans have not been
announced. Picasa users will
not experience any
interruption in service.
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Fool.com have
speculated that Google might be interested in the
following companies - because after the IPO they will
have loads of cash...
Ask Jeeves
FindWhat
Monster
Worldwide
Verity
Overtstock.com
Priceline.com
InfoSpace
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Some of the biggest US
pension funds are calling for shares to be priced at a
'substantial discount' to reflect the fact that insiders
will retain control. More...
Overstock.com
used the Dutch auction method two years ago, and shares
have risen 200% since. More...
Many
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Larry and Sergey have
one third between them. But who owns the rest? Would you
believe Shaquille O'Neal, Henry A. Kissinger and Arnold
Schwarzenegger are stakeholders??
Read more at NY
Times
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"Google will seek to
raise $2.7 billion in the deal led by Morgan Stanley and
Credit Suisse First Boston, according to a form S-1
filed Thursday afternoon."
It will be using the
unusual auction techinque that has been previously
reported.
"Google also revealed it earned $105.6
million on revenue of $961.8 million in the 2003 fiscal
year. In the first quarter of 2004, it earned $63.9
million on revenue of $389.6 million."
"A copy of
the prospectus relating to these securities may be
obtained, when available, from: Morgan Stanley & Co.
Incorporated , Prospectus Department, 1585 Broadway, New
York, NY 10036 (tel: 1-800-364-5990) or Credit Suisse
First Boston LLC, Prospectus Department, One Madison
Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (tel:
212-325-1075)."
Press
Release
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A Forrester analyst
has suggest that $15+ Billion is not what Google is
worth, and that he'd be happier with $6
Billion.
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On eBay, Orkut invites
are being sold for $5 or less.
That's cheap.
although most nice people will let nice people in for
free (if you are reading this, I will... contact me,
Rob, via SearchEngineZ.com)
Someone who is one
degree of seperation away from either Larry Page or
Sergey Brin (the Google founders) could probably sell an
invite for $100 or even $1000. Although I'm not saying
it would be worth that.
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IPO
yes/no?
Posted
by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 29, 2004 -
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Today we have a news
item saying that "An independent audit confirmed
Google's financial health and cleared the way for a
public stock offering in
April".
However:
The Times in the UK are
saying
that "Google’s management, headed by Eric Schmidt, the
chairman and chief executive, has grown wary about the
timing of a float because market conditions are not
right."
Ultimately it's not really news until
Google announces a date - until then it's just media
speculation to fill their pages.
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When Google is unable
to determine an appropriate ArWord to display, it shows
an ad from a qualifying non-profit
organization.
"A committee of Google employees is
responsible for selecting award recipients. Selection
criteria are based on confirmation of your 501(c)(3)
status, the content of your application, and the
potential benefit that your organization and the public
will receive from free Google AdWords
advertising."
"Google Grants, as the program is
called, has been lurking silently in the background of
the Google infrastructure for the past several months.
It's triggered when Google's technology can't determine
the best keyword match for the content on a page, or
doesn't have appropriate AdWords ads to serve with the
content. Publishers that display AdSense ads can turn
off the feature as a user preference (and instead of
serving the PSA can serve their own ads)."
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Forbes.com has reported
that SCO has softly suggested that Google should pay a
license fee for the thousands of Linux servers they
have.
My prediction: Google will put off a
decision until they see what other companies do.
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"Google Inc. hired
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange
its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as
much as $4 billion, a banker involved in the transaction
said."
The article
suggests that Google is valuing itself at $12
billion.
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A three-page article
examining many aspects of it (plus the obligatory
background story) can be read at Fortune.com
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Some experts are
saying Google could be worth as much as $25 billion.
Others suggest between $15-20 billion. These figures are
based on comparing Google's worth to those of Yahoo and
eBay.
The thing is, Google operates quite
differently to those two. It depends much more on the
quality of search results. If they were to become less
relevant, or if Yahoo or Microsoft bring out a better
search engine, Google could become a has-been.
Business
Week looks at the valuation factors
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IPO!
Posted by: Anonymous on Saturday,
October 25, 2003 - 02:17 AM
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After a year of
speculation it has been finally
announced:
"Google is considering holding a
massive online auction of shares early next year in an
initial public offering that investment bankers predict
could value the internet search-engine company at more
than $15bn."
More at the Financial
Times
"Reuters
reports that only 53 public offerings in history have
exceeded $1 billion and that for comparison purposes,
Yahoo and Amazon are valued at $26 billion and $22
billion respectively."
(start
saving...)
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Barron's say Google
could be worth $14 Billion, and predict:
"So,
start saving those pennies: The Google IPO should be no
more than six months away"
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Is there going to be
an IPO - not looking too likely.
Has Microsoft
made an offer for Google in the past - seems
likely.
Will Google offer paid inclusion -
no.
Details at Search
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Today's press release
from Google:
New GSA customers announced today
include Pfizer, Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Nextel
Communications, Procter & Gamble, Discovery
Communications, the U. S. Army, the San Diego
Union-Tribune and the City of San Diego.
Launched
in early 2002, the GSA is currently deployed by hundreds
of institutions in a wide range of industries, including
aerospace, technology, broadcasting, retail, government
and education. This growing list of GSA customers has
contributed to a 200 percent increase in sales over the
past year - demonstrating the ongoing market demand for
the GSA.
GSA pricing starts at $28,000, including
two years of support and software updates. More
information can be found at www.google.com/appliance.
[I
wonder if any millionaire has bought one to index their
home recipe or CD collection....]
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At Internet News they
say:
"Switchboard.com
now displays at least two contextually relevant paid
links on the results pages and other areas of its online
yellow pages directory. Google draws the listings from
its base of 100,000 advertisers, using its algorithmic
search technology to scan the content page and match it
up with relevant links. Switchboard.com had 5.4 million
unique visitors in June, according to
Nielsen//NetRatings.
Google and Switchboard will
share the revenue generated from clicks on the text
advertisements. The deal is for one year. "
Isn't
it wonderful that contextually relevant text ads are
replacing banner ads! Thanks Google!!
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David
Drummond
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by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 10:54
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"Rapid growth also
characterizes Google Inc.'s legal department, which had
two other lawyers when David Drummond arrived as general
counsel in February 2002, and now has 15 and counting.
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Profile on the man, and his plans, at the The
National Law Journal
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Big
article at Forbes about the finances of Google (of
course, being Forbes).
Includes this little
tidbit as a further indicator that they will be going
public in the near future:
"They are altering
Google's billing and accounting systems to comply with
the new Sarbanes-Oxley Act--a law that applies to all
public companies but no private ones. It may take until
October to comply, but Schmidt's urgency is palpable.
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Fortune reports
on a new Google employee, Lise Buyer, and how her
appointment might be an IPO indicator...
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AlwaysOn: We hear that
Google is run in an unusual way.
Schmidt: It
really is. Virtually all of the strategic initiatives
and product initiatives are either driven by the two
founders or by very small innovative technical teams. We
don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning
process like you’d find in traditional technical
companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very
quickly, which I think is a real strength of the
company.
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"...executives have
privately told the board that revenue will soar from
less than $300 million in 2002 to $750 million or more
this year, with gross profit margins of 30
percent"
Let me see... $250 million profit makes
Google worth $5 Billion versus getting interest from the
bank. Factor in how much the sharemarket would love
Google, and how much more they can grow, my moronic
estimate is a market worth of $20-30
Billion.
Good on ya Sergey and Larry!
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LAZINESS was crowned
king last week in Mountain View, Calif., the home of
Internet search pioneer Google. And, thanks to King
Laziness, we won't be seeing an initial public offering
from Google any time soon.
"Thus far, laziness
has always won out. There are so many better things to
do," Google co-founder and technology head Sergey Brin
told the PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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No
Google IPO
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Mr Brin says filling
out all the forms is too much hassle, and he would be
too distracted by the ups and downs of stock prices.
Nice to see he has a sense of humor, but is he
telling the truth? He has neglected to mention the plus
side of an IPO - he becomes exceedingly
rich...
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Search Engine War
Update:
Not content with owning one of the top 5
search engines, Overture have gone and bought another -
FAST (aka AlltheWeb) for a mere $70 million.
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It's
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Short but concise article
at the New York Post says:
"On the surface, none
of these deals were huge. But what lies beneath the
acquisitions is a positioning battle that pits Yahoo!,
Google, Overture and Microsoft's MSN in a World Wide Web
war. "
I believe that, now they have all become
the same beast - search engines with high-earning text
ads - they will now slowly develop their own
personalities. My guesses:
Google - will keep
adding more specialized tools, and retain its lean and
colorful interface.
Yahoo - will promote their
search engine as a seperate beast to the portal. It will
be lean like Google, but with few options. Simplicity
for people with simple needs.
Overture will
become the search engine of choice for folk who like
lots of bells and whistles - their advanced search will
have more options than any other. Their AltaVista index
will index more pages than Google, but without the
depth. Give them at least a year to get there.
MSN will stay bloated and inept. They get so
much traffic without trying that they won't try.
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$2
Billion Brand
Posted by: Anonymous on Friday,
February 21, 2003 - 07:31 PM
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"Think Xerox for
photocopying, Kleenex for tissues, Scotch for adhesive
and Post-Its for, well, post-its. Such powerful branding
is practically priceless, but, based on conversations
with industry sources, we estimate that Google's brand
alone is worth north of $2 billion.
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That's a lot of money for a made-up
word. More at Forbes
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But why? Here's my
guess:
I use PostNuke for this psuedo-blog,
because there isn't a blogging service which is
customizable enough or has a good enough range of
features.
(Except for Antville.org - they totally
rock)
The people behind Blogger have hopefully
been working on a killer blogging application. It will
be so good that everyone who blogs will switch to it.
Google has had some problems with weblogs - they
tend to rank very highly in search results, usually more
than they deserve. Now they have an opportunity to
control the blogging data from both ends.
The
story is online at:
Evhead
- the guy who sold it to Google
Internet
News
Google
Village
Guardian
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BusinessWeek details a
number of negatives concerning Google's
future:
Overture gaining some corporate text ad
customers
Verity and Yahoo buying Inktomi search
products
WiseNut, Teoma, and FASTm are appealing
as 3rd-party search result suppliers
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A story at Canada.com
says:
...analysts estimate it has annual revenue
of US$60- million to US$100-million. It is difficult,
however, to determine Google's exact size because it is
privately owned and does not disclose its
financials.
(It would be hard not to make a
profit from that kind of revenue)
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What's not speedy
about the Web Search King? Its plans for an
IPO.
Even though it has been around since 1998
(forever in the dotocm world) it still hasn't sold
shares to the public. Article
at ABC News
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In the last 6 months
Google sites grew 54 percent to 34.2 million unique
visitors [JMM]
Google
3rd behind MSN and Yahoo during March based on unique
monthly visitors [Nielsen]
Google
top in Feb based on "search hours", the truest
indication of search engine popularity. It blows the
others away [JMM]
Google
challenges Yahoo for No.1 [StatMarket]
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Yahoo has renewed its
contract with pay-per-click search engine Overture for 3
more years. Industry pundits had been predicting that
Google AdWords would replace them, but alas, not to be.
Report at The
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IPO
looming
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This CNN
article gives a nice overview or what Google has
been up to lately, and its possible futures. A debut on
the stockmarket might not be so far off
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