- Google – an electronic freedom argument
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: silicon.com
Part of the reason for Google’s success is the widely held belief that it provides complete and unbiased results. Now that is only possible so long as its owners refrain from pushing a particular view of the world. Its value in a sale of shares is currently being assessed in terms of its advertising revenue. But valued in terms of its potential to influence opinion, it might be worth a great deal more. That is what makes Google vulnerable as it moves towards any sort of flotation.
[Open In New Window] - Hands Off Google!
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: InternetNews.com
No matter what they say beforehand, companies NEVER buy other properties only to let them continue operating as they had been. Not only are there internal moves - executives who "get it" may be replaced by people from the acquiring company who don't - the very process of "integrating" an acquisition means there will be changes. Microsoft would want to make Google serve its business, not the other way around.
[Open In New Window] - Friendster spurns Google
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: SiliconValley.com
Search-engine giant Google recently made a $30 million offer to buy Friendster, the hot Sunnyvale online dating site that lets users meet and date friends of their friends. Friendster spurned the proposal, choosing instead to accept $13 million in fresh investments from venture capital firms, according to two VC insiders familiar with the events.
[Open In New Window] - Google's Ticker Treat
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: Fool.com
Tell me that Google isn't already starting to think like a public company. Head out to the popular search engine, punch in a ticker symbol, and the first item that comes back is a link for a stock quote along with its financials.
[Open In New Window] - Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: The New York Times
According to company executives and others briefed on the discussions, Microsoft - desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business - approached Google within the last two months to discuss the possibility of a takeover.
[Open In New Window] - Microsoft and Google: Partners or rivals?
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: News.com
According to company executives and others briefed on the discussions, Microsoft--desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business--approached Google within the last two months to discuss options, including the possibility of a takeover.
[Open In New Window] - Google fights for top spot
Date: 2003-10-30 Source: Guardian Unlimited
Google will raise billions when it goes public in a few months, but Jack Schofield wonders if it will be overtaken by competitors
[Open In New Window] - Google's API: For Fun, Not Profit (Yet)
Date: 2003-10-30 Source: SearchDay
Google is still working through the process of making the API into a commercial service. Obviously, they've already talked to a lot of SEO and SEM companies, but have not come to any public decision on how to handle this issue. Minar encouraged people to contact Google if they are interested in business arrangements, and Dornfest encouraged people to develop additional innovative tools.
[Open In New Window] - How good is Google?
Date: 2003-10-30 Source: Economist.com
Google is no sure thing—as those who hope to sell its shares are no doubt aware. John Doerr and Michael Moritz, for instance, between them also brought Netscape and Yahoo! to market, and may remember their lessons. With luck, Google's owners will remember to work out a viable strategy for Google beyond the point at which they cash out.
[Open In New Window] - Google eyes book search
Date: 2003-10-29 Source: News.com
Such a service would likely allow people to query a database for keywords and then view exerpts from books where those keywords appear, according to the report. So far, Google has made agreements that give it the ability to scan as many as 60,000 titles, the report said.
[Open In New Window] - Google: the challenges of the proposed IPO
Date: 2003-10-27 Source: IT-Analysis.com
Two other challenges are likely to dominate the news surrounding the proposed IPO. The first is consideration of an on-line offering method of sale. The second is the perception that Google occupies a near monopoly position in the world of internet search engines.
[Open In New Window] - Google Buys Sprinks, Plans IPO
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: SearchDay
In a busy financial day for Google, the company purchased Sprinks, the former paid listings division of PRIMEDIA's About.com, while it was also revealed that an initial public offering is planned for early next year.
[Open In New Window] - Google Gobbles Up Sprinks
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: InternetNews.com
The white-hot search service signs a four-year deal with Primedia to sprinkle contextual ads in the publisher's Web of hobby pubs and Internet Guide sites. In return, it gets to make competitor Sprinks go away.
[Open In New Window] - Google plans huge share sale
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: Yahoo! News
A Google IPO could open the door for more deals and revive Silicon Valley, which has languished for three years following the pop of the technology bubble. Some smaller IPOs, like those of online gift retailer RedEnvelope and a pending one for online travel site Orbitz, have generated fresh optimism.
[Open In New Window] - Google Raring to Go Public
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: Wired
Google's search for an investment bank to take the Internet firm public is widely seen as the type of seismic event that could help wake up the dormant market for new issues of technology shares.
[Open In New Window] - Google swaps anoraks for suits
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk
After years of protesting that focusing on quarterly targets and the bottom line would inhibit the growth of the company, Google's founders - Moscovite Sergey Brin and Michigan-born Larry Page - are taking the plunge and pressing ahead with a stock market float likely to value the company at more than £9bn.
[Open In New Window] - Stock and search
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk
The flotation of Google is in many ways a betrayal of the company's philosophy, writes Victor Keegan.
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