You Think Had a Bad Week? Be Google

By Paul Kedrosky · January 20, 2006 · ·

Google stock had a crummy week this week, losing  roughly Amazon’s market capitalization ($19-billion) in the last five days:
Google price

Blame two well-timed downgrades (nice job, Scott), plus the increasing play being given the click-fraud story, and the weaker-than-expected Yahoo results earlier in the week.

Related posts:

  1. National “Rich Guys Steal Stuff” Week
  2. Did Yahoo Break the Fever?
  3. Web Analytics as Free-Fire Zone
  4. The Great Google Heist
  5. The ABCs of Downgrading Google to “Sell”

Comments

  1. Mathew Ingram says:
    January 20, 2006 at 6:04 pm

    Ah, what’s $19-billion — barely 15 per cent. Nothing but a speed bump :-)

  2. Mark says:
    January 21, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    I think that the DoJ push for search records might also have had an impact, especially if people in the know are hearing ruminations about DoJ lawsuit as necessary…

  3. anon says:
    January 21, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    “privacy protection” principle or just a public relations move from Google?
    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060121/google_stock.html?.v=2
    http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/01/20/travel-day/
    (see comment #2)