Is the search king ready to go public? This is a question being debated everywhere. Everyone would like a piece of Google, but is it a sure profit? What could a Google IPO mean for the market? Most of all what makes Google so special from all the other search engines? In the minds of two Stanford students was a vision. A vision of enabling users to search through a database if billions of cached …showed first 75 words of 748 total…

…showed last 75 words of 748 total…their usage of Google's technology. Yahoo! is estimated to provide almost 30% of their searches. Another rumor that has created a lot of excitement is the possibility of small time investors being able to be able to invest in Google's IPO by a stock auction. This would appeal the majority of the crowd and "gives Google executives some credibility"3. Google has proved itself very trustworthy, what's left is to sit around and see what will happen.