speaking of goog: does anyone know how long it would take for a recent ipo to be made part of the nazdog100 and or s&p500? it seems like that sort of thing would be necessary to sop up all those shares coming out of lockup, and the early lockup expiration would pretty much put it in line with entry into nazdog100 around december which - if i remember correctly - was when changes were made in previous years.
overall, though, i can't think of one positive thing about goog as a longterm investment. msft can kill this one so easily, by putting msn search directly into internet explorer and on the desktop. (do they actually have such a thing yet? phoenix/mozilla e.g. has a search bar at the top that goes to your search engine of choice?) anyway, this is the "kill netscape" model for msft. how can they not run it again against google, since its simple and seems like a sure thing ... (and were not enjoined from doing so by the settlement in the antitrust lawsuit.)
anway, looks like goog have a window here in which to become a bit more than a one-trick pony.
