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Google IPO received more media attention than Facebook IPO

Facebook’s initial public offer has been plastered on business pages across the world in the past week, but it is not the biggest Internet IPO of our time.

Using an online research tool, HighBeam Research, here is the amount media attention each of the five Internet companies with the biggest IPOs received when searched with the term “IPO.”

The number of media mentions are for the three months prior to the IPO date.

Google and Facebook received the most media mentions followed by coupon site Groupon and gaming company, Zynga. The professional social network, LinkedIn received the least amount of media mentions.

Company	# of Media Mentions
Google	513
Facebook	481
Groupon	97
Zynga	81
LinkedIn	33

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.