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Google Goes Public at $85/share

Posted by michael on from the buckle-your-seatbelts dept.

adpowers writes "It is official. Google will have its IPO debut at $85 per share. To quote the article, 'At that price, the low end of its recently revised range, Google raised $1.67 billion, with $1.2 billion to go to the No. 1 Internet search engine and $473 million to Google executives and investors selling their shares.' Trading begins Thursday, August 19th." Got Google?

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  1. Scoffing Analysts by kaleco · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I wonder how many of the analysts who scoffed at Google's potential value of $33bn rely on it every day to research other companies.

    I, for one, would be lost without it. However, I will be interested to see how it develops now it's under external influences.

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    Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge
  2. The Beginning of the End? by mkachan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I fear that for Google, going fully profit and opening to investors might in the long run have a negative impact... Will big Google shareholders be able to influence what appears in the Search Engine? Maybe right now this will be impossible, but who knows what might happen in the future... And what will be the consequences of it for the users?

    Maybe the problem is the following: there is a way in which Google is perceived now that is fundamentally wrong. It is treated as a "service" for Internet Users, the One and Only Search Engine, while it is just Yet Another Company.

    Monopolies (especially privately-owned and profit-making ones) are never good. Will Google become as Bad(TM) as Microsoft?

  3. Money for buyouts? by manmanic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With an already profitable business, and lots of extra money in its pocket, can we expect Google to start a buyout spree? Some targets might include Vivisimo with their clustering technology, Girafa for visualizing search, or even some of the better Web APIs applications like Google Alert or the GoogleBrowser, as this Wired story suggests.

  4. Don't buy a cent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First, pick up and read a copy of The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (commentary by Jason Zweig).

    1) By all fundamental measures, this stock is dramatically overpriced. (Ask yourself how a search engine -- which could likely be replaced by next years' "next new thing" -- could be worth, on a per cap market basis, as much as McDonalds.)

    2) IPOs usually only make one group of people rich: the boardroom execs. Don't be suckered by the initial rise in price -- IPOs are almost always followed by a dramatic downturn.