Monday, July 26, 2004

Financial Stress Gets to the Best of Us!

Financial Stress Gets to the Best of Us!
 
You know how it is. You have the bills to pay, your regular job to do and an IPO (initial public offering) expecting shares to begin trading in the range of US$108 to $135 each. Let's see...that would amount to $36.3 billion market capitalization on the high end.
 
Oh, wait a minute! That's Google in that situation!
 
The problem is that someone let the ball drop when the Google search engine died in multiple parts of the world on the same Monday that Google, Inc. made the regulatory filing! Can we say oops!

According to initial reports from the BBC, the failure may be the result of a version of the MyDoom virus. Although not all Google servers are down, there are widespread "outages" reported across multiple Website Designer and SEO forums online. Is this a case of bad timing? Has this been a well thought out plan? Maybe time will tell... Or, maybe the folks at Google just need to read their email. I understand from all the s.p.a.m. I receive that Cialis and Viagra can get anything up!