Stefan - 4:19 pm on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

A sealed bid auction, guaranteed to overprice the shares right at the start.

10 votes per share for the insiders, 1 for the little guys.

Uncertain governance due to their "novel" approach to quarterly statements.

It seems to be about rewarding the insiders, by funelling naive investors' money to them, more than anything else. And then we get, "Don't be evil" as the supposed motto, the idea being, "hey, we're wonderful folks, just trust us..."

To cap it all off, only Americans are allowed in on this. G doesn't seem to mind making money from the rest of the world through its dominance of search... what the h*ll is with this US only stuff?

I say, go for it America... feed your dollars to Larry and Sergey.