However, there is no new innovation to justify the price. Pricing at the moment also do not factor-in competition on their tail. Search, Maps and Talk have already been matched by others, it is just a matter of time before the market stabilizes on this.

Google needs to move and do something worth their price. Analysts can hype things up only for a few quarters.

If I had a nickel for every time I found a spelling or grammatical error on TechCrunch, I’d be a millionaire.

Plus, Google’s reached $700/share *without any innovations* in the past 3 years. Incremental doesn’t count. It’s share price exceeds earnings by more than 100 to 1.

Can you say bubble, or is your memory so bad you don’t remember 2000/2001?

That being said, stock prices go way to high, unnaturally high during a bull run and go way too low during a bull run. The markets don’t really have to make sense. Based more on emotion than anything else.

That being said, they are a one trick pony right now. I would short the stock but at this point, there are quite a few times in recent history that I said the same thing and would have lost money.

Oh, and don’t assume that Google knows more about people than even the Govt. Are you sure about that? How do we know Google isn’t part of the NSA?

Try imagining a world where you edit your Google hosted docs on your GoogCell and when you get home at night all the ads on your GoogTV are relevant and targeted.

Google will only continue to grow. Is it good for the consumer, yes; for now. Is it good for industry, yes; for now. Is it dangerous at some point, yes.

Where is that point?

There can always be another google, there’s just no justifiable alternative at the moment.

It’s this kind of writing that indicates to me the clear bubble that’s emerging. When tech companies and writers about them think so highly of themselves that they herald their indispensable nature to the world, when many people across the planet can wake up and not go a day without using them.

This posting is obviously a troll to the well read and clear minded. If you want a job at Google PR, just submit your resume like everyone else.

If Google just up and flopped, sure I would be sad… and then I would move on to Yahoo! or one of the other dozen big seach engines and email providers.

To further put Google in a proper perspective, imagine Microsoft doing the same thing–completely shutting down in a day, denying access to existing copies of Windows installed on machines. Can you imagine the chaos? What is the alternative for day-to-day users and office workers when they’ve spent their entire lives working on a Windows platform? While Mac and PC have kind of met in the middle in terms of features and functionality, the software hasn’t when it comes to compatibility.

Sure, having banks of information on consumers can give you an edge in business, but control over their behaviors and ultimately their lives is the true measure of a company or brand’s “power.”

The ceiling for a company’s value is the point at which no other company can afford to acquire or take over a company.

Despite Google’s meteoric rise, its ultimate valuation comes down to whether it is possible for another company to acquire Google with debt and have Google’s cash flow service that debt and provide a risk adjusted return that is better than industry alternatives.

Unfortunately, the number of outfits who would issue debt to fund a Google acquisition at these levels is probably quite slim, and the existing cash flow wouldn’t service more than $70-80B worth of debt. Now how many players are willing to put $30B of their own cash down and leverage their own balance sheet for an additional $120B+?

Any takers? Didn’t think so.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/62254/page/1

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06.....4digi.html

See Google? It’s a Search Engine. It can be used to LEARN something or to verify facts.

See the company right after Google on your chart? Know the name of it? I didn’t think so!

It is unbelievable to me that you have TWO typos in the name of the SIXTH LARGEST company (according to your figures).

It’s really not that hard to spell the name of a company correctly, or to use the right punctuation. Hint, the company name does NOT have the letters “N” or “D” in it. It also only has one “A”, and one “O”. And one more symbol than you had.

Cmon Duncan, pick up the quality of your articles (in content and accuracy), or, as a reader, I’m going to have to fire you (and go elsewhere).

This article from the NYT might cool your fever:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11.....2adco.html