Google is valued at around $23B. Even though it is lower than recent estimates, it is still much higher than people were originally speculating: $10-15B.
The final numbers are going to be determined by the public mood at the time of auction clearing. The recent delays will probably not bode well for that...
After a few weeks, the price should settle at something financially sound.
I do believe that many on Wall Street want this thing to sink. Here's hoping it doesn't.
I think there will be some serious hype-driven bubble inflation during and immediately following the IPO. They may take measures to prevent it, such as selling more stock, but once the shares are out on the open market, ther'es not much that can be done.
The third-party stuff does look pretty promising though...
"It's working. 'We get clever hacks, educational uses, and wacky stuff,' says Nelson Minar, who runs the API effort. 'We love to see people do creative things with our product.'"
Wonder if this attitude will continue after the IPO...
"It's working. 'We get clever hacks, educational uses, and wacky stuff,' says Nelson Minar, who runs the API effort. 'We love to see people do creative things with our product.'"
Good question if this attitude will continue after the IPO...
Possibly, but I don't think a company would pull such an april fools joke on the media right before the IPO - they need to project and establish trust. Otherwise, people will say in the future - "how can we trust you?"
The upgrading of Froogle is only part of a much larger Google overhaul today. Other new features include a personalized search, and an email web alerts service. The latter seems to be a scaled-down copy of the well known Google Alert service.
Can anyone find an overarching pattern to all these moves?
Had a look at both services. Both seem easy to use. Google Alert seems to offer more personalization features and deeper searching per term... On another level, Google seems to be drawing inspiration from its API developers?
Had a look at the two services. Both seem easy to use. Google Alert seems to offer more advanced features for personalizing an alert. It also offers deeper searching per search term.
We use it to keep track of certain search terms and it works just great. It has advanced search options, as well as RSS Feeds and Trackback. Google Alert seems to have received a lot of recent press coverage, including this recent article in SearchEngineWatch.
This would definitely work to create a local awareness service. Interesting if you could also combine the RSS feeds on the back end to get automation. I think Google Alert has RSS operable. I wonder if Google will open up the location search results to RSS output.
It would be realy great if Google opened up a personalization API - like the service currently offered by Google Alert. That would really be something...
Many services have come to rely on Google's API, and in turn, on Google's organization of web content. For example, the automated search service Google Alert may have to reconfigure their service to meet the new demands.
In the latest chapter of Google protecting their trademark, they even asked the dictionary folks at Wordspy to change
their definition
of the word "google" to prevent it from becoming a generic word. All this has caused mixed reactions and lots of news coverage by microdocs (formerly Google
Village), Search
Engine Watch, and Internet.com. Their latest target seems to be the Google Web APIs-based automated
search service Googlert, who
changed their name to "Google
Alert" and explain
that they were asked "politely" and have been "sympathetic" to
Google's concerns. All this recent activity might be in the spirit of shoring up the Google brand and business image before an IPO...
In the latest chapter of Google protecting their trademark, they even asked the dictionary folks at Wordspy to change
their definition
of the word "google" to prevent it from becoming a generic word. All this has caused mixed reactions and lots of news coverage by microdocs (formerly Google
Village), Search
Engine Watch, and Internet.com. Their latest target seems to be the Google Web APIs-based automated
search service Googlert, who
changed their name to "Google
Alert" and explain
that they were asked "politely" and have been "sympathetic" to
Google's concerns. It's nice to see that they let them keep the word 'Google' in the name - I guess Google is trying to keep web developers on its side.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like the world of paid-for-access to search APIs is gradually becoming a full-blown marketplace. Who'll be next to enter the fray?
- Mark
The alerting space is also a growing one, especially considering the success of the third-party alerting Google Alert service based on the Google API.
Google is valued at around $23B. Even though it is lower than recent estimates, it is still much higher than people were originally speculating: $10-15B.
After a few weeks, the price should settle at something financially sound.
I do believe that many on Wall Street want this thing to sink. Here's hoping it doesn't.
I think there will be some serious hype-driven bubble inflation during and immediately following the IPO. They may take measures to prevent it, such as selling more stock, but once the shares are out on the open market, ther'es not much that can be done.
The third-party stuff does look pretty promising though...
Indeed. I'm going to go with PR stunt until they prove otherwise.
"It's working. 'We get clever hacks, educational uses, and wacky stuff,' says Nelson Minar, who runs the API effort. 'We love to see people do creative things with our product.'"
Wonder if this attitude will continue after the IPO...
"It's working. 'We get clever hacks, educational uses, and wacky stuff,' says Nelson Minar, who runs the API effort. 'We love to see people do creative things with our product.'"
Good question if this attitude will continue after the IPO...
Possibly, but I don't think a company would pull such an april fools joke on the media right before the IPO - they need to project and establish trust. Otherwise, people will say in the future - "how can we trust you?"
This is definitely high season...
The upgrading of Froogle is only part of a much larger Google overhaul today. Other new features include a personalized search, and an email web alerts service. The latter seems to be a scaled-down copy of the well known Google Alert service. Can anyone find an overarching pattern to all these moves?
Had a look at both services. Both seem easy to use. Google Alert seems to offer more personalization features and deeper searching per term... On another level, Google seems to be drawing inspiration from its API developers?
Had a look at the two services. Both seem easy to use. Google Alert seems to offer more advanced features for personalizing an alert. It also offers deeper searching per search term.
We use it to keep track of certain search terms and it works just great. It has advanced search options, as well as RSS Feeds and Trackback. Google Alert seems to have received a lot of recent press coverage, including this recent article in SearchEngineWatch.
This would definitely work to create a local awareness service. Interesting if you could also combine the RSS feeds on the back end to get automation. I think Google Alert has RSS operable. I wonder if Google will open up the location search results to RSS output.
It would be realy great if Google opened up a personalization API - like the service currently offered by Google Alert. That would really be something...
Many services have come to rely on Google's API, and in turn, on Google's organization of web content. For example, the automated search service Google Alert may have to reconfigure their service to meet the new demands.
In the latest chapter of Google protecting their trademark, they even asked the dictionary folks at Wordspy to change their definition of the word "google" to prevent it from becoming a generic word. All this has caused mixed reactions and lots of news coverage by microdocs (formerly Google Village), Search Engine Watch, and Internet.com. Their latest target seems to be the Google Web APIs-based automated search service Googlert, who changed their name to "Google Alert" and explain that they were asked "politely" and have been "sympathetic" to Google's concerns. All this recent activity might be in the spirit of shoring up the Google brand and business image before an IPO...
In the latest chapter of Google protecting their trademark, they even asked the dictionary folks at Wordspy to change their definition of the word "google" to prevent it from becoming a generic word. All this has caused mixed reactions and lots of news coverage by microdocs (formerly Google Village), Search Engine Watch, and Internet.com. Their latest target seems to be the Google Web APIs-based automated search service Googlert, who changed their name to "Google Alert" and explain that they were asked "politely" and have been "sympathetic" to Google's concerns. It's nice to see that they let them keep the word 'Google' in the name - I guess Google is trying to keep web developers on its side.