Reply #2: They are a profitable company....

[KeepItReal]

"it had sales of almost $1 billion and earnings of more than $100 million last year and first-quarter profit in 2004 more than double that from the same quarter of the prior year"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58958-2004Jun21.html


As long as they (Google) innovate, acquire companies with technologies they may want, and stay out of the news for bad stuff, they should be ok. Assuming web advertising market doesn't go into a depression, that is.

There's a competitor called IceRocket.com that I hope Google either acquires or licenses the technology for presenting seach results...

I'm rooting for Google, even though Ameritrade says I'm "not qualified" to bid on the IPO, after years of being a trader though them.