http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504105564/ds1a.htm#toc16167_4 Thank me later, Shawn has this but a lot of you do not
Your welcome, when you figure it all out let us know? Hope that beer tastes good, see ya later. Some other page I found online http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/349/
Here is a quote from that report. There is an ongoing and increasing effort by “index spammers†to develop ways to manipulate our web search results. For example, because our web search technology ranks a web page’s relevance based in part on the importance of the web sites that link to it, people have attempted to link a group of web sites together to manipulate web search results. We take this problem very seriously because providing relevant information to users is critical to our success. If our efforts to combat these and other types of index spamming are unsuccessful, our reputation for delivering relevant information could be diminished. This could result in a decline in user traffic, which would damage our business. So pertaining to one of my other post heheh I may have gotten my answer from google. Themed or unthemed
That SEC doc is v interesting, cheers. And to think that G's main competition is Y and M$ - remember when BG's book, 1st imprint, only mentioned the Internet once? He's really into it now isn't he?
Here is another very interesting little snipplet Text-Matching Techniques. Our technology employs text-matching techniques that compare search queries with the content of web pages to help determine relevance. Our text-based scoring techniques do far more than count the number of times a search term appears on a web page. For example, our technology determines the proximity of individual search terms to each other on a given web page, and prioritizes results that have the search terms near each other. Many other aspects of a page’s content are factored into the equation, as is the content of pages that link to the page in question. By combining query independent measures such as PageRank with our text-matching techniques, we are able to deliver search results that are relevant to what people are trying to find.
Well it looks like MR BILL will be having his financial experts working overtime to review googles financial statements
This writer at the Washington Post will give you a lot of information on the inside of the IPO deal. You will have to register to look at the article but it is well worth it. It will give you information on why Google is going public now (pressure from original investors who wish to cash out) and how much insiders stand to make. It also will also disclose that much of the hype going around about folks making a fortune buying when the stock is available to the public is exactly that. Remember AOL and Time Warner, if you would have bought at $79.00 when the merger was announced, you would have lost 80% of your money. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13570-2004Jun28.html?referrer%3Demail
Come back and tell us what you find out. Post any links that you find, some folks here are very interested in getting Google stock. Your welcome for the links, keep up the research, bring some info back to us.