Big Daddy for Blogspot Bloggers

From what I've seen on my web counter in the past few days, I'm really looking forward to the arrival of Big Daddy.

'Big Daddy' is what people are calling the latest Google search engine algorithm update. This update is predicted to be much more significant than the last few. The best overview I've seen about it is at Direct Magazine.

Right now the changes are only in effect at a couple of data centers. But this will spread throughout the whole Google search engine as early as the beginning of February (or as late as sometime in March).

If you want the nitty-gritty details on the algorithm and data centers changes occurring now leading up to Big Daddy, check out the ongoing discussion at Webmaster World.

If my visitor logs are any indication of the general impact this update may have on other bloggers, I'd say us Blogspot users are going to be really glad that Google's our daddy. Are any other blogspot people out there experiencing significant changes already?

Google Stock Split in 2006

Some people are making what seems like outrageous predictions that Google stock will hit $2,000 in the next couple of years. At that level they would be the highest valued public company in the world.

Google is trading at around $450 per share today. The P/E ratio is at about 100 and their market cap is $133 billion. That's pretty incredible for a company that has less than 10,000 employees and no widgets for sale.

But personally I would never short this stock and I think it could well quadruple in the next couple of years given their growing domination of the world's media industry.

One prediction I could comfortably make for 2006 is that Google shares will split. And it's unlikely they will split two for one. I think we will see at least a 5 for one split.

Once the stock split is announced, we'll probably see a huge appreciation in the price and together with astounding quarterly reports, that $2,000 prediction (pre-split price) may just be reached before the year is out.