Google Slashes IPO Price Range – IPO Price range reduced by Google,

In a Surprising move by Google, The IPO range price was reduced by Google from 108$-135$ to 85$-95$,

According to the reuters article:

Google Inc., the Web search engine, on Wednesday slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from $108 to $135 per share.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6004505

Google’s IPO delayed

Google Inc.’s initial public offering has been delayed while the company awaits final approval of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Regulators made no decision Tuesday as Google had requested, said John Heine, an SEC spokesman. The Internet search company had requested that its registration statement be made effective at 4 p.m. EDT to clear the way for shares to begin trading as early as Wednesday morning. More here

Yahoo offers domain registration services at $9.95 per year

Yahoo one of the Giant internet companies is now enterning into the domain registration service industry, they are competing with big names like godaddy, network solutions etc, Yahoo already offers free/paid web hosting, web design services, email services and many more, Now their venture into domain registration market is an important improvement, previously they were offering domain registration at 35$ per year which is way higher than the current price,

Small businesses will be benefited a lot from their exciting offer from yahoo,

MSN New beta search engine review now closed,

MSN Technical review of their beta search is now closed, MSN is testing their bot and their search product for a long time, They recently gave a glimpse of their new index which will be going live soon, Many search engine optimization experts were seriously analysing their sites and their client sites on how well they were performing in the new MSN beta search, MSN search as we all know is the third most important search engine only next to google search engine and yahoo search engine, People have noticed considerable amount of search engine traffic from MSN alone, MSN search has attracted people who specifically target product search and MSN is known to send well targeted visitors to a site, Unfortunately testing is closed, Now we just have to wait till they bring their search product live, We hope to see it pretty soon,
Following message is displayed on the techreview search page,

“Thank you very much to all of those that tried our service and sent us feedback. We will make improvements based on the suggestions we received. Once we are ready, we will release another preview of our new algorithmic search engine.
On a related note, we have a site that has previews and betas of upcoming MSN technologies: The MSN Sandbox. Visit the MSN Sandbox and try out our new MSN product ideas.
Thanks,MSN Search Team”

I checked some of my client sites in MSN search, Some of my clients are performing extremely well in the new MSN search engine, I just love to see the search engine bring their index online,

Google seeks OK to sell shares

Google has signaled that its share auction is nearly complete, asking the Securities and Exchange Commission for approval to begin selling 25.7 million shares of stock starting late this afternoon.

Venture capitalists and Google watchers said yesterday’s request, coming on the first business day after the bidding opened, suggested the Web search provider’s much-anticipated auction already may be oversubscribed at a price in the target range of $108 to $130 a share. That would fetch Google between $2.8 billion and $3.3 billion, the biggest initial public offering ever for an Internet company.

Tactics of ‘Google Guys’ Test IPO Law’s Limits

Playboy magazine issue is still burning hot, AN other related news on the Google guys controversy,

The “Google Guys, America’s Newest Billionaires” — as company founders Sergey Brin, 30, and Larry Page, 31, are described in the new issue of Playboy magazine — may be engineers by training, but they are proving to be skilled at marketing too.

Having built one of the world’s best-known Internet search engines through free publicity and word of mouth, they have generated global attention for their ongoing $3 billion electronic auction of stock by granting an exclusive interview with Playboy. more….

Auction for Shares In Google’s IPO Could End Today

Google Inc.’s initial public offering took a major step forward as the company notified investors that today may be their last chance to submit, withdraw or change bids in the unusual $3 billion electronic auction for stock in the Internet giant. More news…

Google Could Make Its Market Debut Wednesday

The Web search company said on Monday it has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to declare its registration statement effective on Tuesday at 4 p.m. EDT

Read more here…….

Google and the underwriters have requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission declare the registration statement pertaining to Google’s initial public offering of Class A common stock effective on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 4:00 p.m.

source: http://www.ipo.google.com/press-release-20040816-1.html

Google (GOOG) on Monday said that it has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to declare its IPO effective on Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. Eastern, which could see the search company’s shares trading the next day.

Source: CBS market watch

Google’s Funny logos – Google Olmypic logos, Google Athens 2004 Logos

Google has a good sense of humour as we all know, They had the Pigeon rank, Lunar search etc, Now they have some nicely designed google logos on their search page, These logos are designed with The olympics in sight, Right now they displayed 5 logos which is posted below, More Google logos will be posted here as google shows them on their homepage,

Google olympic logo - 1

Google olympic logo 2

Google olympic logos - 3

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Google olympic logo - 5

Passing Parade: Google Hype Vs. History

The Google IPO has attracted almost as much media attention as the Normandy invasion did in June 1944. Both had casualties. At least we know the assault on the French beaches 60 years ago was successful.

From the beginning, Google created a carnival atmosphere in announcing it was going public through a Dutch auction. That raised a few eyebrows and created a lot of confusion. A Dutch auction is just that: An auction with stock going to the highest bidder. In theory, all investors are equal. Anybody with a few dollars, a dream and a high enough bid can buy into an IPO at its offering price — in theory, that is. But as the Google IPO unfolded, some investors were more equal than others. First came a requirement buried in the pages of the prospectus. A potential bidder had to be an “accredited investor.” That meant the average man or woman on the Street would not be qualified to bid on Google’s IPO, unless his or individual financial status was pretty darn sound. More here…

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