In the Drink ( Google Gets the Gong )

BARRON ^ | FEBRUARY 13, 2006 | JACQUELINE DOHERTY

[george76]

[A CA Guy]

Wow, sure glad there are no short term interest only loans out there. We could have a real situations starting in this country. ;)

[skip_intro]

Are you implying that I shouldn't have taken that 2nd on my house and rolled the proceeds into Google?

[A CA Guy]

Are you implying that I shouldn't have taken that 2nd on my house and rolled the proceeds into Google?

GREAT MOVE!

[quantim]

as its shares have tumbled nearly 25% from a peak of $475

Greenspan is chuckling as Bill Gates gets ready for the market adjustment...and the takeover.

[skip_intro]

Well, I'll just sell first thing tomorrow morning, before anybody else notices.

I mean, how bad could it be?

It does annoy me, though. Google going to $600 was a sure thing. CNBC said so.

[Kryptonite]

This much is absolutely certain - anybody looking to make 10-12% in the very short term will short sell GOOG to that electromagnet of a gap near 325.

Put your money on it too.

[A CA Guy]

Maybe an investment in Penguins is in order, I hear they were once hot.

[george76]

"Earnings would be 30% lower than the bull's projection, at $6.28 a share."

"If the stock were to maintain its current multiple of 41 on those lowered earnings, it would be worth $257."

"It's more likely the multiple would shrink to as low as 30, in line with the slower growth. That would make the stock worth $188, versus its recent $360."

[skip_intro]

You know, I've got this guy sending me stock names on these pink sheets of paper. They're all really cheap, like less than a buck.

Maybe I'll roll my Google proceeds into them. He says they're a sure thing.

I've got to do something, since the interest rate on my 110% second is due to go up in a month or so. Fortunately, no one has ever lost money on Real Estate here in California, so I think I'm still ok.

[jwh_Denver]

Google gave us the first genuine internet search engine. I don't remember the others but I do remember Ask Jeeves, what a POS. The more I use Google the more I like it. Microsoft can forget my business but I might go with Yahoo a few times since they are good on financial things like stocks etc that I use free.

GOOG $360 March puts are only $1700 for 1 contract. With their volatility that might be cheap.

[A CA Guy]

California is a piece of cake, especially with the new bankruptcy laws.

There is a new investment possibility with Danish cartoonist you might want to look into.

[ikka]

They showed their immaturity as a company when the CFO admitted that the tax burden was higher than he thought it was going to be. Google paid something like 42% in taxes, when ordinarily such a company would pay about 30%. Obviously there are a number of moves they could have made to avoid that ridiculously high taxation.

[george76]

What do you think of these ?

http://news.clusty.com/

http://www.alltheweb.com/

[T.L.Sink]

Little or nothing has been said about how Google and Yahoo have sought to increase their profits in Red China by eliminating anything offensive to the ChiComs from their search engines. After all, such paltry concerns as freedom of inquiry, the international free exchange of ideas, and the notion that democratic ideas may take hold among the masses in a totalitarian state, are secondary to what the balance sheet could look like with a 1.4 billion person market. This is analogous to a private broadcaster during the Cold War saying that it would eliminate anything offensive to the Soviets from Radio Free Europe. The internet has all the potential to globally advance free thought and free expression. Sadly, these servicers have chosen to act as censors for the sake of profit. Shame!

[Banjoguy]

Teoma works for me.

[boycottliberalhollywood.com]

The thing about GOOG that amazes me is that somebody out there is willing to pay $475 a share for it. I mean, everybody talks about how if only they had bought MSFT back when they started out, but Microsoft actually makes stuff that people shell out money for. Windows? You pay. Office? You pay. You got a big business and need something like Exchange or SQL Server? You pay, and pay big. Microsoft extracts hundreds of dollars from the average customer. Google extracts nothing. Sure, their advertisers pay, but I personally haven't sent them a cent, so it's all secondary income. How do folks really see $475/share in that? I just don't get it. I'm no economist, and maybe it shows, but I just don't see it. $150 maybe, but $475? no way!

[bkepley]

Google gave us the first genuine internet search engine.

With stolen Yahoo technology. How could that be?

[The Duke]

I guess the lemmings are now running *towards* the cliff.

Wonder where they'll go next? :)