Google Tries To Silence IPO Rumours

egoff writes "Google has put off an IPO for now, saying "Thus far, laziness has always won out. There are so many better things to do." The New York Post suggests that Google's focus on R&D doesn't really mesh with the financial accountability of a publicly traded company. However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenate Internet-company investments."

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Obligatory

[telstar]

It had to be done:

Google IPO

Re:Obligatory

[JJAnon]

Hmm.. According to that link, there is pretty good coverage of the story here

Yay

[B3ryllium]

This just in: new socks could rejuvenated my sock drawer!

I'd buy a google IPO if I had any money, but ... I think their QoS would go waaay downhill :(

Yikes

[flynt]

However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.

There are more grammatical disagreements in that sentence than I've had good days!

Re:Yikes

[The AtomicPunk]

It was suggested a while back that editors reject articles with poor grammar. Unfortunately, they decided it wasn't feasible because the editors couldn't come up with any reasonable way for them to figure out if a submission had good grammar. :)

Re:Yikes

[tunah]

Well, given slashdotters' treatment of linked articles, reading doesn't really seem a reasonable way, does it? ;-)

Crazy English

[dietlein]

However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.

A little excited about the 'ly' and 'd'?

Google+Blogger+IPO=Go_Ogle, Online Dating Search

[fruscica]

Online dating is big business. Consider:

• 26M Americans visited an online dating site during 12/02

• "Personals Comprise the Largest Paid Content Category on the Internet: According to a [12/02] study...the Personals category grew 387 percent to become the largest online paid content category among consumers in the third quarter of 2002, surpassing Business Content." (source: comScore Media Metrix)

• "'I have 43 employees, and we'll bring in $43 million this year. That's $1 million per employee,' [uDate president Martin] Clifford said. 'We have zero cost of sales within our business...The margins are almost super-margins.'" (source: MSNBC.com)

Google+Blogger is an ideal combination for serving this market.

Once Google goes public, here's how I think Go_Ogle will happen:

Soon, Google will improve the searchability of "blogspace" by making it easy for bloggers to annotate their blogs with information about themselves and their blogger friends. This information will be encoded in an RDF dialect called FOAF (Friend of a Friend).

It will then dawn on people that the FOAF file is effectively a static online profile, while the associated blog is akin to a living profile (in the 'living document' sense).

With this, Googling people will come to encompass both researching people you have met -- already a common practice -- and researching people you would like to meet.

The upside potential of this, as introduced above, will prove too substantial for publicly held Google to ignore. (In addition, I believe leadership of the market for online matchmaking software is the gateway to early leadership of the market for lifelong learning and career services, which will be worth hundreds of trillions of dollars in the coming decades. Toward understanding the relationship between the two markets, consider: according to a recent American Demographics survey, couples in the U.S. meet primarily at work (36%) or school (27%). More on 'online dating software -> LLCS' here ).

Google will then acquire the best makers of RDF query tools and launch Go_Ogle, the mother of all online dating sites.

Thoughts?

Heh - "many analysts"

[legLess]

However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.

Here's the full text:

However, many [former] analysts [polled at the local homeless shelter] believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments. "It'll be a brand-new economy!" they said. "Based on unshakeable principles of eternal growth, eyeballs, mindshare and synergy. Oh, God, please give us one more chance!"

LOL!

[Boss, Pointy Haired]

However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.

I think the last 4 years have proved that analysts know shit.

Re:Surely the entire sector doesn't rely on this

[nolife]

HAHAHA, I tought the same with VA Software!.