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	Is GOOG Too Good?

Andy Greenberg

11-20-2007 11:36 AM

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google, yahoo, msn, ask

Andy Greenberg says:

Strange thing about public companies...you have to win, but you can't make it look too easy. Google is eating up market share so fast that Henry Blodget worries it can't keep up a steady diet--and that may mean a hit to its ever-more-ginormous stock price.

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