Google Files for IPO

bobwyman manages to be the first to submit this story, apparently by using his own web service: "Well, the PubSub.com SEC Edgar notification system just sent a message a few minutes ago saying that Google has finally filed their S-1 to go public. See: Google's S-1 which was accepted by the SEC at 2004-04-29T13:53:49-04:00. If you had had a PubSub.com SEC Edgar subscription, you would have been one of the first to see this filing."

If you...

[gleepskip]

If you had had a Slashdot subscription, you would have been one of the first to see bobwyman's advertisement.

My prediction

[eschasi]

Google stock will go up, then down, then up, then become unpredictable. There, that ought to be vague enough.

Any day now

[DeputySpade]

w0000t! Does this mean they'll have the money for the moon base?

About fucking time.

[bl1st3r]

Now, off to mortgage my house and buy some stock. I just hope they maintain quality of service that they have been providing for so long.

Re:More information

[Anonymous Coward]

DDoSing the SEC is always a fun thing to do on a Thursday afternoon.

Who said "Don't be evil" ?

Re:Any day now

[wookyhoo]

No, but their pigeons will start getting better benefits.

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I sense a disturbance in the force...

[sampowers]

... As if a million investors cried out in simultaneous orgasm,

Re:They're going to get a lot of money

[telstar]

"Estimates of what they will do with all their money?"

• I bet they spend it on storage for their new email service. Call it something goofy like GMail, and offer a gig of storage for each user.

Wonderful.

[timealterer]

In other news, Microsoft has put aside half its cash reserves to purchase 51% of these new shares. Mass suicides and hysteria begin.

Re:They're going to get a lot of money

[stateofmind]

They will acquire Lycos.com now, of course.

Google CEO:
"Finally... after all these years Lycos and Hotbot will be mine. Muhahaha"

Middle-Management Grunt:
"Sir, the IPO has went through"

Google CEO:
"Ex-ce-llent... ready the fleet"

Re:Loose the money you made on your paper round he

[Anonymous Coward]

"Loose" the money? I'd rather tighten the money, but thanks anyway.

Goo

[MagicM]

I hope they get a "GOO" ticker symbol.

Sweet precious GOO.

cute choice of numbers

[zatz]

Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price: $2,718,281,828

I wonder what inspired the choice of e billion dollars.

And the profiteering begins...

[AviLazar]

"If you had had a PubSub.com SEC Edgar subscription, you would have been one of the first to see this filing."

Well the companies trying to make a buck on Google's name already begins :) God bless our system lol.

Don't Be Evil

[scovetta]

Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served--as shareholders and in all other ways--by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

If Google were a woman, I would ask her to marry me.

You're new here, aren't you?

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, come on, didn't anyone other than MSN have a description of Dutch Auction IPOs?

Re:Evil

[dpille]

I'd mod this funny, myself, given this section from the SEC filing:

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS "AN OWNER'S MANUAL" FOR GOOGLE'S SHAREHOLDERS

DON'T BE EVIL
Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served--as shareholders and in all other ways--by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

I mean, if they're promising not to be evil, isn't that good enough? If we had only thought to extract non-evil promises out of companies like Enron....

you forgot most important part:

[Janek Kozicki]

7) Profit !!!

Re:If you...

[CreatureComfort]

Not to mention that a bot is far more likely to submit a story without spelling errors.

Re:They're going to get a lot of money

[typobox43]

[spellingnazi]
[grammarnazi]
the IPO has gone through
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Google IPO

[pipingguy]

Let the evil begin!

Yahoogle

[gvr]

Microsoft will own the search market and yahoo and google will merge and form Yahoogle.

Re:Yahoogle

[Vancouverite]

Are you sure that they wouldn't take GooHoo as a name? I think it's much more elegant and sophisticated.....

Re:Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

But isn't that exactly what an evil company would say?

Re:cute choice of numbers

[Anonymous Coward]

That was a natural choice.

Re:I learned BASIC as a kid

[WebMasterJoe]

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