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Google to be Added to S&P 500 Index

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finally-arrived dept.

hrbrmstr writes "According to marketwatch.com, Google is being added to the S&P 500, replacing Burlington Resources Inc. While this has provided a short-term boost to the stock price, time will tell what the overall impact will be on this respected index and the institutions (i.e. mutual funds) that follow it."

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  1. Google embodies the S&P by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are the Standard. And lately their search results have been quite Poor.

    I am interested in how they are going to expand with their main sources of income (U.S. and U.K.) pretty much saturated and their other international sources stagnant and losing to entrenched local search engines.

  2. Re:It's 1999 all over again by grahamlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Specifically, it's Bubble 2.0 (which is AJAX-enabled and speaks XML-RPC and SOAP)

  3. remember Google? by i_am_the_r00t · · Score: 5, Funny

    the search engine with the tiny, sparse page?

    now when I do a search What I get Sounds like a Starbucks drink.

    Froogle-Local-Picasa-Blogger no whip, please.

    Don't be evil.