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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Both Jewish, did everyone know this?
- unlimitedorb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's a really beautiful as well as inspiring story =)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
It's news because Google is a new startup that's looking for investors. Now excuse me while I find my parachute pants. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
Well, according to Kevin Rose, Larry Page may not be Jewish because he's not circumcised. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4
I hope the story really inspired you to be all that you can be [at Safeway] because I have a feeling you won't be attending Stanford anytime soon. - tektalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3His specialty is Chernobyl Chili—“45 minutes in the microwave.”
gotta love that. - smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um... I think you have stock price and market cap confused. The Market Capitalization is the stock price times the number of shares outstanding. Which is effectively the "value" of the company in the market. The author was commenting on the "size" of Google based on Market Cap (value). If you Google the following terms, you'll see a little number that comes up for Market Cap.
goog: 144B
gm: 21B
dis: 71B
mcd: 56B
Google's share price is now 470, but the author says that the recent price was 513, which would raise their market cap by about 15B. So indeed, the author was nearly right if you consider the old stock price. Google is larger than the other three combined.
And by the way, a search for brk.a tells that Berkshire Hathaway is worth 167B, which is comparable to Google's (whereas your naive comment makes it look like no comparison: $108,200 vs 500 or so.) - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Skitzzo
They have been very popular for more than three years but I believe they were talking about the size of the companies. I've heard talking about Google passing Microsoft's market cap in 5-10 years, something that would have been unthinkable by most just three years ago. - shamitpatel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Larry Page was the brain behind the Google search.. Sergey just helped......
- tim507, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3amazing article...it makes me push that much harder to make a difference.
- ggoyal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like you don't know much about stocks either.
Stock split doesn't affect market capitalisation - it increases the number of shares and reduces per share price - but keeps the overall value of the company the same. More people can afford to buy the stock, possibly raising the price, and the value. - preved, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice article, except where it says how his family was discriminated by anti-Semites. The Head of Moscow State University which, as article claims, has rejected Sergey's father because of ethnicity, was the man with the same ethnic roots, Yakov Zeldovich (http://www.peoples.ru/science/physics/zeldovich/).
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google sure came a long way fast. I was just listening to an old "Talk of the Nation" from NPR right before Google's IPO talking about how the money will allow them to compete with much bigger search engines like Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL and this was from April 2004.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1853267 - understudy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@digthisup
No, thank you. I like the design of Digg.com how it is now now. Google would just ... um ... what's the word ... 'google' it up with pastels and misaligned content and no padding and cheesy logos, etc.
_ - ngsayjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I didn't know Sergey was Jewish, I only thought Larry was.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The most important line in that entire article was where the author explained that google makes all of its money selling text ads, which the author then admits most users don't even realize ARE ads at all.
The entire company is built on one thing: tricking stupid people into thinking ads are just navigation links on a page. Which is why slashdot and digg still don't make jack ***** for revenue with adsense, because most of the users here have been around long enough to learn to "spot the ad" - bberg07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3As a potential Stanford undergrad student, I find the story of Google to be inspiring. Sergey was on campus when I was out visiting this past fall, but I never got the chance to meet him.
In the context of the article, it is the best writeup I have read about Google. - vorathee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1definitely an uplifting and inspiring story for everyone, Jews or not, should read and be inspired by it. i hope to one day read it my son when he's old enough. i also like how his family was included in the whole story and not just about Sergey himself. peace out...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
And what would be the business logic behind that, *****? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2TLDR
long post = failure at internet - roshini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Amazing article! But, I always thought only one of them was jewish! Guess I was wrong!
- Televari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good article, but way overblown introduction:
'Google...world's largest media company.... has made searching the Web easy and even fun, is larger than Disney, General Motors and McDonald’s combined'
...come'on now, though Google is a very successful and growing company, but even with a $500+ share price, Google is not necessarily the world dominating force it's often portrayed to be. Heck, if it were based on share price alone, I'd recommend looking at Berkshire Hathaway whose, share price is currently at $108,200 per share. - taykength, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Brilliant chaps. Maybe one day they'll come up with an OS that can truly rival Microsoft and make them the richest men in the world.
- jsc07302, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1And this is news because?
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Well if that's the case, then NPR was way off. Google's been the top dog (in terms of search) for longer than 3 years. But yes, it's growth has been pretty amazing.
- drpunkerz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1If you want a much more detailed story about how google started, read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Rewrote-Business-Transformed-Culture/dp/1591840880/sr=1-1/qid=1171599837/ref=sr_1_1/105-5507163-4390054?ie=UTF8&s=books - Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2just saying, MSN (live.com) has never been a "Much bigger search engine" and it's been several years since Yahoo was
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1this artcile is a book and half
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3who owns digg?
- outhouseinput, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Great article, but why does the author value the corporation based solely on its stock price? A company is not simply the value per share of its stock. Corporations periodically split and reissue, etc, to keep investors buying. The author doesn't know anything about the market.
- tim507, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1i think digg just messed up
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5yeah i hate jews, they are trying to take over the world, owns cocacola google youtube ebay everything we go on
- digthisup, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1SergeyandLarry, please acquire this Digg.com......Million Pleases!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1>Both Jewish, did everyone know this?
Your mom did. Comes to think of it, so did your dad. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Jews are mostly successful! That's because their parents teach them right.
- idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I aint going to read dat! OH WHAT!
- superKduper, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1I was just listening to an old "Talk of the companies.
I've heard talking about how the money will allow them to compete with much bigger search engines like Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL and this was from April 2004.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1853267 [reply] by Skitzzo 1 hour ago [comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 1 digg Great article, but why does the author value the corporation based solely on its stock price? A company is not simply the value per share of its stock.
Corporations periodically split and reissue, etc, to keep investors buying.
The author doesn't know anything about the market.
[reply] by tim507 25 minutes ago [comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 1 digg Great article, but why does the author value the corporation based solely on its stock price? A company is not simply the value per share of its stock.
Corporations periodically split and reissue, etc, to keep investors buying.
The author doesn't know anything about the size of the companies.
I've heard talking about Google passing Microsoft's market cap in 5-10 years, something that would have been very popular for more than three years but I believe they were talking about Google passing Microsoft's market cap in 5-10 years, something that would have been very popular for more than three years but I believe they were talking about how the money will allow them to compete with much bigger search engine" and it's been several years since Yahoo was by eskick 3 minutes ago [comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 1 digg who owns digg? by captinherb 1 hour ago [comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 1 digg Great article, but why does the author value the corporation based solely on its stock price? A company is not simply the value per share of its stock.
Corporations periodically split and reissue, etc, to keep investors buying. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0wow the web giants, check out http://www.uploadextra.com
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