Google's Price Target Taboo

Like the greats of baseball, former stock analyst Henry Blodget will forever be associated with a number that has nothing to do with a uniform. DiMaggio: 56. Ruth: 60. Aaron: 755.

Blodget: 400.

Unlike those greats, however, Blodget's number -- the price target he infamously put on Amazon.com(AMZN Quote) in December 1998 -- carries a tinge of notoriety, an asterisk that bursts like a firecracker into a larger, less triumphant story. Blodget's bold call inaugurated an era of the stock market that many investors have since labored to rub out of their memories: His $400 price target smashed a champagne bottle on the ill-fated S.S. Dot-Com Bubble. ...