Replies to post #48 on Alphabet Inc (GOOG)

[99Dan]

From Google's e-mail today:

Please be advised that Google and the underwriters have requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission declare the registration statement pertaining to Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock effective on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). We will send you a notice of effectiveness once the registration statement has been declared effective. You may access the current prospectus by clicking

https://www.ipo.google.com/data/prospectus.html

We are sending this notice to everyone who obtained a bidder ID, regardless of whether you have submitted a bid to purchase shares of Google's Class A common stock in the offering.

If you have submitted a bid, you should access the current prospectus and carefully reconsider your bid(s). Bids may be accepted by the underwriters in as little as ONE HOUR after the notice of effectiveness of the registration statement is sent to you. You may withdraw your
bid(s) by contacting your brokerage firm at any time until the notice of acceptance is sent to you. Please note that submitting a bid does not guarantee that you will be allocated shares in the offering, if it is completed.

Please do not reply to this email. If you have questions regarding this process, please contact your brokerage firm.

A registration statement relating to Google's Class A common stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. Google's Class A common stock may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of Google's Class A common stock in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. No offer to buy shares of Google's Class A common stock can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time until the notice of acceptance is sent after the effective date. Of the shares to be sold in Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock, 14,142,135 will be issued and sold by Google and 11,555,394 will be sold by the selling stockholders.