Will Google Become Another Netscape?

kaluta asks: "The Economist has a typically clear and concise story about bringing Google to the stockmarket. Basically, is it going to be the next eBay or Amazon, or will it 'simply be the next overhyped share sale to make its founders rich only to wither away miserably, either for lack of a sustainably profitable business model, or, like Netscape, because it finds itself in the path of that mighty wrecker, Microsoft?' Cool picture too."

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The Irony

[Shadow Wrought]

Ah yes, a search engine company attempting to "find" itself. Maybe they could just goo... never mind.

I could have told you that!

[batura]

Paraphrase: "Its going to be a success or failure"

No shit, Sherlock

Google search: Apple

[RigMonkey]

Your search - Apple - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing "Apple".

Did you mean "Microsoft"?

Re:A word of warning from an economist:

[jazman_777]

Although economists can be thought provoking [good thing] their economic analysis is often trash [bad thing] - economists brush over facts, present dodgy one sided (and often politically biased) analysis and present conclusions as fact. So draw your own opinions but do not take anything from economists served on a plate.

I say this because most economists are statist keynesian trained seals.

Re:Be careful for what you wish for

[Anonymous Coward]

I`ve just been to your site. Here`s a choice quote -

Can we be certain that marijuana is the cure for cancer? No, but we can't say it isn't either

Erm, yes we can. You`ve restored my faith in Google. Keep saving up for that brain transplant pal.

Re:Room for improvement in Google

[D-Cypell]

Yeah I agree...

Google could be losing some serious market share in the 'music to fish to' demographic!

Re:Wh

[eddeye]

Really -- there are worse things that can happen to somebody than getting really big and then getting small.

Yeah, just order more penis pills.

Re:Anyone remember Altavista?

[christopherfinke]

I don't even remember if Altavista is still around

Yeah, how in the world would one find out if AltaVista was still around? I mean, it's not like you hear about AltaVista everyday, but surely there must be a way to discover the status of the AltaVista search engine...

Re:The new authority in data quantities -

[Scarblac]

But, for any of you loking for the 'right' answer to that age old question,

The answer is actually defined as a constant in the calculator.