Google Founders Do It Their Way

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NEW YORK Despite Google’s transition to public ownership, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page want the company to operate in much the same manner as it has during its nearly six-year existence.

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one,” Page starts a letter to prospective shareholders, a preamble to Google’s S-1 document.

Ending months of anticipation, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company yesterday filed a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO that could fetch the search company as much as $2.7



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