"....wiping out nearly $12.5 billion in shareholder wealth."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/01/D8FGCR10C.html

When the rest of the world catches onto the ShuckNJive Google mirror act, we will sink bigger than the "dotcom bubble" crash.

What goes up must come down. Nothing can keep going forever. Yahoo use to be useful and Google came along and said we can make searching even more useful and people start using it. Now google is huge. Searching on google now is less and less useful but still better than the rest. It's time for another company to come along and say...hey we can make your search even more useful...and the cycle continues. Google will have to eventually step down.

I think it is just a minor correction. The dotcom bubble burst taught investors to not overvalue stocks, but Google has been overvalued for some time. And stil is, IMHO.

This minor correction is not a slump. Google is going to take over the world.
They're building one of the biggest databases of humanity. I've noticed search trends slightly arch higher right before something "happens." Then the search SPIKES...

If Google can spot trends just before they "happen" by using the collective consciousness of humanity, they will have more power than any government.

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeis...ldaffairs.html