Google IPO probably in 2004
All factors indicated that Google will wait, as it has said, and not go public this year even as the tech stock market has had a solid rise this year according to this San Jose Mercury News story:
Like Netscape in 1995 and eBay in 1998, some believe that a blockbuster initial public offering of stock in the hot private company Google could lead to another IPO wave.
...So it's Google, backed by two high-profile venture firms, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, that observers are eyeing. Buzz on the street, though, is that the company won't go public until early next year, and that a host of other private companies in the valley are positing their IPOs for Google's frothy wake.