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| | SIAM: For Google Investors, a Crash Course in the Mathematics of Bidding |
 | | In doing so, they may have violated SEC rules requiring that companies, to avoid improperly influencing their stock price, keep the press at arm's length in the period before a public offering. |
 | | For auctions of a single item, one standard method is the English auction, the "going, going, gone" system of auction houses like Sotheby's or Christie's, in which participants bid against one another and the item goes to the highest bidder. |
 | | Another method is the traditional Dutch auction (not the type used by Google), which originated in the tulip markets of Holland. |
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