Google's courageous, clumsy debut

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Esther Dyson <edyson () edventure com>
Date: August 21, 2004 5:00:40 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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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