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Drift Net > e-business Google Stock: All bark?
Will Google's stocks implode on investors?The auction on the first shares of Google's IPO end today, and the immense hype is causing some fierce skepticism and criticism. In this Times article, Gary Rivlin argues that Google is the latest addition in a long line of over-hyped technology stocks that eventually crashed, citing Apple, R.C.A., and Linux as examples. Skeptics argue that the company, whose world famous search engine has become a cultural phenomenon as well as the equivalent of God's microscope, able to neatly aggregrate seemingly endless fields of information, may very well come crashing down to Earth. |
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