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I agree 100%
It's the same dynamic as during the .com bubble.
Whoever shorted this stock after it's IPO got his eggs burned. Whoever liquidated long positions regretted it and maybe bought back.
Buyers witnessed the momentum and stopped selling their long positions, which added to the drying up of the supply side.
The stock then accelerated and gained more and more momentum through the shills & mountebanks in the media and the sell side desks.
I recenty saw an insider trading report, according to which GOOG was the 5th largest or so seller of it's own stock.
My guess is that GOOG will spike before selling kicks in, just like the techs in general back then did.
I'd say half of it's current market cap would be justified, if they invented and marketed something like cold fusion reactors or brain programming interface.
Here's their "business model" according to yahoo finance:
"Google, Inc. provides Web search and online advertising services on the Internet. It offers advertising solutions and global Internet search solutions through its Web site, and Intranet solutions via an enterprise search appliance. The companyâs products and services include Google.com, Google AdWords, Google AdSense, and Google Search Appliance. Its Google AdWords program is used by advertisers to promote their products and services on the Web with targeted advertising. The companyâs Google AdSense program is used by the third party Web sites to deliver ads relevant to the content on their sites. It also provides enterprise search appliances to search corporate systems through the Google Search Appliance. In addition, the company provides email services through Gmail, which offers a gigabyte of free storage for each user along with email search capabilities and relevant advertising. Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California."
CMGI anyone? Doubleclick? Internet Capital Group? No? Oh, I see, most here are registered after 2004
