No, really… absolutely unbelievable… Google’s stock is over $400 now and currently sitting at $401.36. By far the highest priced stock on the stock market currently. Not only that, they’re talking as if $500 isn’t out of the question. When Google went public, they went public at barely over $100 a share, as far as I can tell. Imagine investing $2500 in google at that rate. You’d have nearly $10,000 now if you sold it all.
It just seems that Google can do no wrong at the moment. Obviously things could change but damn, they just keep striking gold in everything they do. They’re also opening offices in Mexico City and Sao Paolo, Brazil to increase their reach in Latin America. Not to mention, they’re rolling out free WiFi in Mountain View, CA (where their home offices are). They’ve also just rolled out a new Google Base service that allows people to upload content that they want indexed and made available online. It can include almost anything you can imagine, from what it appears… even stuff for sale (like Ebay, even!). Should be interesting to see how that pans out. Google also bought Orkut, which is a social networking site much like myspace except that as of right now it’s invite-only (like gmail). Obviously they have their gmail service that gives you 2.5GB of email storage. Google Groups indexes usenet and makes posts easily searchable over the web without having to use a newsreader client. Google Mobile allows you to search google via your web browser on your phone or via SMS commands. Google maps and google local have been integrated such that now you can find a map of an area and search for businesses of whatever sort in that given area. Pretty sweet shit. Seems that whatever you need, google has. It’ll be interesting to see how Yahoo & MSN plan to compete.