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[IP] Google's courageous, clumsy debut





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From: Esther Dyson <edyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 21, 2004 5:00:40 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Google's courageous, clumsy debut


COMMENTARY--This is the week that Google is useless as a search term to filter news results, because everyone is talking about Google.

But a lot of what they're saying, at least in the press, is colored by the people the press is quoting, mostly Wall Street analysts and bankers. Of course those analysts want to paint the whole IPO as a dismal failure, because it flouted the rules of Wall Street and its gatekeepers. And of course would-be institutional investors, also quoted, successfully drove the price down from its originally projected--and too high--level… (For my biases, see end.)

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5318295.html






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