So who's going to invest in Google stock?
 

Fuck yeah!

Did your sig grow?

I decided to invest the first time I heard the rumor about their stocks. Good as gold.

"Bankers have said a Google offering could value the company at as much as $25 billion, the Journal said."

Something to think about for sure. I am interested in what the big players think (6-7 figures+ in the market).

I would like to dump a couple thousand into this just to get in with.. I'm sure it will do well even in the long haul..

I really wish I hadn't already invest my nest egg recently. I think this will end up like Yahoo. The price will keep going up and up for the first 6 months or so until it becomes over-inflated and then will drop rapidly to about half of its peak. The trick it to hold onto it until the peak and then sell sell sell. Then buy it back when it his it's lowest point and hold onto it for a few years.

So fucking true man!!! Average downs fucking rock when you sell off at the right time and jump back in.. Wonder how soon it will be after IPO before they split it...

True but sometimes the initial public offerings only shoot up for a day or 2 then take a dive. All it takes is one piece of negative news. I found that out with Leap Frog a few years back. In the long term it all seems to work out well though. This could be a good investment.

One piece of negative news isn't going to hurt a brand this big or a company this big.

Eventually either Google will buy out a major media outlet (think AOL/Time Warner) or a major media outlet will buy Google.

somebody invest for me and let me know because i have no money:1orglaugh

Would absolutely love to get in on this IPO -- only problem is, it's near impossible for the small guy that's looking to invest a few grand to get any shares at the IPO price.

You certainly can't get the shares with most online accounts (Ameritrade, E-trade, etc..). This has almost always been the case with big IPO's -- the shares are reserved for major clients, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies, etc..

I imagine it's not completely impossible to acquire shares, but just not through conventional means. Anybody have any info on sources?

When Ebay went public, they e-mailed all their members and offered to let them buy stock first. I think it was like $22 a share but I don't really remember...it was cheap.

I would love to get on the opening wave

I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole!!!

Google has a severe relavency problem and that's why Yahoo dumped them.

After getting dumped they now need investment capitol to spend on research and new hiring so they can improve. But they will not improve and the money will be wasted and that means you lose your investment.

They need to fix their shit and don't have the money and that's the sole reason they are going public...to raise money.

Google has no business plan as does Yahoo.
Yahoo is a comprehensive site with it's own managed directory.
Yahoo has a multitude of features that will take years for google to try and compete...for example tv.yahoo.com, movies.yahoo.com, yahoo personals, geocities, etc...
all of these features keep daily traffic on yahoo.

Google is on the road to failure and in the exact same manner as Altavista and Go.com

Save your fucking money and buy traffic with it.

people really like Google... but it depends on how their biz model holds up long term... they have already lost some popularity because of their now more commercial approach etc and they got so big because of the opposite but certainly worth a gamble IMO even if you arent big enough to get in on the early rounds.

google is expanding much faster isn't it?

I posted a thread about this earlier on GFY. No one replied so I thought it might have been old. I saw it on the news earlier today.

I do remember that... in fact, back in '99 some of the online broker accounts were attempting to let their members buy IPO shares, but unfortunately it never worked out.

When the now defunct MP3.com went public back then, there was quite a bit of buzz. So I attempted to buy up around $10k worth of IPO shares... only to find out that my buy order never went through. Would have stood to make some damn good money from that IPO... but was more or less screwed by E-Trade, not being able to fulfill the promises to their clients.

If I'm not misaken, there's even talk of this Google IPO using a lottery system when it comes to allocating shares. Good old supply and demand will dictate if you can get shares, and just how many you'll actually be able to get.

Not trying to be a naysayer here... because I would love to get in on this one myself. So I say again, if anybody has any info on where to acquire shares... by all means share the wealth :)

Google has to work harder being itself now.....as of last week, Yahoo doesn't use Google results anymore! They said the day after, Google dropped 21% in searches and traffic.
But i'm sure with it going on the market...things will get better.

Google will never be able to compete with Yahoo...period!

Yahoo got it right the first time and got years ahead so that folks like google could never catch them.

Yahoo is becoming the "home page" of choice and this will only increase with the newbies getting more computers.

Yahoo has cornered the market where a noob need only go to yahoo to have a full web experience without downloading a virus.

As computers become more accessible to low income people who cannot fix their computer; sites like Yahoo that have a rep for protecting them will rule. This touches on a whole new thread I could hahahahaha about how asshole webmasters made Yahoo the king.

Google will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Going public is just a way for them to try and save their asses.

They have no long term biz plan and even if thes did it's still clear that Yahoo is goin to eclipse eveyone anyway.

You will soon see the Yahoo logo on computers in stores because noobs will simply want to know "can this computer get Yahoo?"

if you can get your hands on google at the ipo price it would be worth it, but for most people you might get it at inflated values.

i can't say if i would invest in it, because i haven't looked at any financials or annual reports from google.

I was thinkin about making some quick money off google... I bet it will go up at first then tank... just need to time it right.

no long term business plan? google is very popular, and possibly growing much faster than yahoo. guess we'll find out soon enough.

Tech is hot again, kinda nice ;))))

Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.

It's growning but mainly as a plugin search.
This is not a strong position. Anyone can come in with an equally powerful plugin, especially when the price of services and equipment drops and thus leaving google with a bunch of old shit they invested millions in and will be trying to pay off in a 10 year installment.

I would hope that you and others in your position will not be too quick to dump yor money in things like this.
We (webmasters) don't need to see any more big players go down! That Globill fiasco ruined some up and comming folks.

So I say to you and other big players, "don't dump your cash in something bad because we all will go down with you!".

I'll try to have some stock with the IPO if the price range is fair, but I doubt

I'll never forget with SEGuru said about search engines going IPO..

BAD NEWS - the new corporate motive becomes profits, rather than content-centered searches.

past examples: yahoo, excite, infoseek, and a million others of ridiculous se stocks during the tech boom.

How much does Google make per year?

yahoo still gets 40% more typeins than google does

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,047.23$

that how much they make per day :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

im in. it should be some easy money.

the day they will earn so much I'll be in :1orglaugh

If I ever have any spare cash I will..... should make a killing

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :thumbsup

Great flick

I wouldn?t invest my money in Google. Where is Excite or Alta Vista today? Search Engine Technology is still relatively new who knows when the next upstart will knock off one of the so called giants on the industry.

i never got into the stock market, but ive several success storys about people who did things right & now are sittin on mountains of cash comfortably.

i have a few bucks i could dip in to the market with...anyone know where i could start learning the basics of stocks??

i will invest in google
yes
but def. not on a long time perspective

google will suffer from its competition
its only a matter of time - thats my personal opinion

i dont think that this will be a stock that will earn you a fortune
googles IPO could turn out to be a mistake for them just like publishing their PR system to guys like us in a toolbar

but who knows :winkwink: