Google's possible IPO draw cries of "monopoly!" [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/10/25/cngoogl25.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2003/10/25/ixfrontcity.html 


Google float may make it a target of Net activists
By Simon English in New York (Filed: 25/10/2003)

A proposed flotation of the internet search engine, Google, could see the 
company face tough questions about privacy issues troubling some web activists.

The search engine is said to be close to selling shares in itself for the 
first time, a deal that could raise anything between $15 billion and $25 
billion.

A float could put the spotlight on issues that until now have been mainly 
restricted to the nether regions of the web, where conspiracy theorists and 
computer geeks meet.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin: have 'googled' their way into much more than 
the Oxford English Dictionary

Critics say that Google is such a successful operation that it is close to 
being a monopoly that should be policed in the public interest.

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