Well, as one of the readers here found out early this morning, I’ve been quoted and so on in the Washington Post this morning concerning the Google IPO.

The article in question is here, and is very fair and evenly balanced. It’s basically a “state of play” covering the full range of opinions on the matter.

It seems my opinion has been used as a final closer, on the 4th page of the online version:

“All I hope is that Google stays the Google that it is no matter what happens,” one fan of the company wrote in a discussion on Google IPO Central. “Don’t sell out Google.”

The same person also posted a question: “Anyone know of a way I can get in on the deal?”

It’s that kind of interest, multiplied across the millions who use the company’s services and now want to own a piece of it, that worries Jeremy C. Wright, a self-described “Business and Tech type person” who asserts on his blog that the Google IPO “is evil.”

The hype surrounding the offering, he writes, is “creating a bubble-type mentality” that can end only one way — with a bust.

He compares the Google IPO to another famous IPO, the Netscape offering in 1995 that is credited with helping set off the first round of Internet mania.

“Hopefully Google fares better than Netscape did,” he writes.

I really do wish Google all the best. And I really do hope they fare better than Netscape did.