[gcb0]

This is nonsense.

If they could have offered x billions in y shares, what change now? Will people accept offers for x billions in 2y shares?

It makes zero sense!

[Jacqued]

The new shares issued here have stricly no voting rights.

So they can offer them in any quantity without having to worry about diluting their voting rights. Whereas offering 19B in voting shares (even though I'd imagine class A shares have less rights than class B) might have been enough to dilute Brin and Page's voting rights significantly.

[gcb0]

makes sense now. thanks.

but then, wouldn't the non-controlling shares be deemed worthless in the long run and it's price plummet in comparison to the controlling shares?

Any other big company did that before?