The Google Insider

If anyone has been watching Google stock over the past year, you have seen quite a bit of change. Quite a bit of growth, quite a bit of diversity, and quite of bit of surprising rise.

Looking at the graph, we can tell that Google has been one of the fastest growing companies in possibly all of our history. Above is a graph of the 1 year period starting in Jan. 2005. If you look at the graph of 2 year period, you will see that as of September 2004, it has quadrupled in valued. The stock went from a little below $100 per share to what it is today, over $400 per share. It currently is at $409.36 per share. In all of our history, I do not believe we have ever seen a stock grow this quickly and this faithfully. Google has proven themselves through their actions, products, and services that they are here to stay and are not giving up. Google has shown that they are willing to compete and easily can with the resources they have. Being the fastest growing Search company on the Internet, Google has been able to provide invaluable services such as GMail, Froogle, Suggest, Images, News, Analytics (new!), AdSense, AdWords, Print (new!), and in the near future I am sure they will release new products and services. Google recently, back in September 2005, ended the ‘Google Summer of Code’, which was a large sponsorship for Open Source projects to help push them ahead of schedule.

Google has been a very large contributor to the Internet community and I am very happy to see how well they are doing financially. As far as the stock goes, I would expect to see a split happening soon only because of how high it is right now. Good things to come, Google has proven that.

Edit: Appears like I’m not the only one that thinks Google’s stock is doing well: MarketWatch.com