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Google Creators Interviewed by Playboy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shaky-ground dept.

Cristiano wrote in to say that an interview with the creators of Google is appearing in the latest Playboy Magazine. That in and of itself is of little note, until one realizes that the issue of Playboy in question is already en route to subscribers and hits newsstands tomorrow, the same day that their IPO auction begins. News.com.com speculates that the SEC may be interested, since this could be a breach of the "quiet period" companies must endure before going public. It may also be nothing but a mistake in scheduling, but it has cast doubts on Google's IPO for some.

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  1. Go for it! by SteveXE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google+playboy a geeks wet dream!

    1. Re:Go for it! by The+Infamous+Grimace · · Score: 4, Funny

      Google+playboy a geeks wet dream!

      What about last months? One of the first pics of the playmate of the month had her wearing nothing but a pink miniPod. Heard about it on Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. First Playboy I ever bought.

      Kinda sad, really, when you stop and think about it...

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    2. Re:Go for it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Now you can ogle and read about google at the same time!

  2. Hey... by gricholson75 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I only buy it for the tech articles.

    1. Re:Hey... by chegosaurus · · Score: 3, Funny

      I only buy it as a visual aid to masturbation.

  3. Google? In Playboy? by GFLPraxis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bring on the booble jokes...

  4. Finally by cdgod · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can now tell my wife:

    "See honey, I buy playboy for the interviews"

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    1. Re:Finally by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Funny

      wife?

  5. If you buy playboy before 9 am by hurfy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You might have a bigger problem than Google and the SEC ;)

    1. Re:If you buy playboy before 9 am by OAB · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's nothing, before the UK Sunday trading laws where changed, it was legal to buy Playboy on a Sunday, but not legal to buy the Bible!

  6. That's a first! by unboring · · Score: 5, Funny

    and this might be one of the only times when geeks are mentioned in the same breath with playboy, hot models, and boobs!

  7. Hey! by oasis3582 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's have a race to see how many people can make the same joke in the first 100 posts!!!

    1. Re:Hey! by endx7 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Let's have a race to see how many people can make the same joke in the first 100 posts!!!

      We should have a race to see how many people make the same joke in the first hundred posts!

  8. Slashdotting Time... by Roguelazer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, it's time to show some serious geek/nerd muscle. Let's slashdot the biggest prize of all- PLAYBOY!

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    1. Re:Slashdotting Time... by randyest · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good luck with that man. Playboy has teh bandwidth to spare. Hugh punds hot babes on stacks of cash nightly. Whatever falls off the bed goes to the ISP.

      Uphill battle indeed.

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  9. Re:Playboy or Google share ? by giminy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google for porn and you get over 8 million hits, buy playboy for google and you get only one issue.

    I'd put my money on google...

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  10. My Firewall at work - I am in for trouble by SmoothCriminal · · Score: 4, Funny

    I may be in soup as I just visited playboy.com

    Being tracked for reading an article about google (well it was from playboy)

  11. Re:It's a conspiracy... by sqrt(2) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't look down the barrel when it's loaded ;)

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  12. Yeah, right by Garabito · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like /.ers would actually read the articles.

  13. disapointing by Punto · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought there'd be at least some pictures of their Vice President of Corporate Marketing, but it's just an article..

    who the hell reads playboy for the articles anyway?

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  14. PageRankings... by SpiritOfGrandeur · · Score: 2, Funny

    They just did it so that they could up their page ranking on words such as "pr0n".

  15. New Google Art? by XipX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one imagining a new "seasonal" logo for the "oo" in google?

  16. Nude Pictures by Space_Soldier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please do NOT show their nude pictures!

  17. Re:Methinks they don't want to go public. by huchida · · Score: 4, Funny

    From what I understand, you can't actually go and buy Google shares. They're slowly giving them out to prominent bloggers. Though they'll probably end up for sale on eBay soon enough.

  18. This is not a troll by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    On John Dvorak's blog there is a picture of the founder of google in drag accompanying this headline. Perhaps playboy will include this photo in their article?

  19. Playboy link by shadowmatter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because the story submitter absent-mindedly forgot, here's the link to Playboy. ... Like you didn't know it already, lonely geek! (I bet all the images on the site are "mysteriously" pre-cached.)

    - sm

  20. Re:Link to Interview excerpt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You have got to be shitting me. This guy takes the link RIGHT from the article... and then gets modded informative. Jesus christ I hate this place nowadays.

  21. Wo-ho! by HangingChad · · Score: 2, Funny
    Google and nake chicks in the same magazine. There's something karmic about that. With so many people using Google to search for naked chicks it just seems...

    ...appropriate.

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  22. Re:Google? In Playboy? by cloudturtle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually i was just thinking. Google has Froogle for cheapos, so Google should have Oogle for sickos, er I mean men.

  23. In other news... by ChangeOnInstall · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...32,000 techies lost their jobs at various major software development companies on Friday, August 13th, allegedly for visiting a site contianing pornographic material. An anonymous vice president of information technology at a Fortune 500 company had this to say: "This represents a great step in removing these future pedophiles from our workforce. In our analyses we found that 86% of pedophiles had been exposed to pornography before the age of 18. Plain and simple, this proves that pornography is a gateway drug to sexual deviancy. Thank goodness we found these freaks of nature before they could cause any real harm to our enterprise."

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    1. Re:In other news... by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      WooHoo, 32,000 openings!

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    2. Re:In other news... by flatface · · Score: 2, Funny

      19,000 from IBM alone!

  24. Re:The SEC Shouldn't Worry by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I know plenty well you guys don't buy them for the articles; but then again, neither do I. Ya I'm a girl - do you have a problem with it, bub?"

    No, but what I have a problem with is girls who make assumptions and generalizations. The fact that this got modded insightful is beyond me. Playboy has, and has always had, quality articles and interviews that are both interesting and informative.

    Yeah, they have some great looking women as well, and you find it in the porno section, but honestly, I'd buy the magazine without the women as a Gentleman's Maxim that isn't as focused on products and crap as GQ or Esquire.

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  25. Matt Damon??? by violet16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It gets better -- the alt text for the pics of the two Google guys is "Matt Damon." This is surely the first time geeks have been mistaken for hunky Hollywood stars!

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  26. Re:It'll be okay by ResidntGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Playboy is not pornography (vulgarly called porn, p0rn, pr0n and/or derivatives), it's erotica.

    Are you sure? Maybe I don't like Playboy. According to Wikipedia, "Erotica is what I like. Pornography is what you like, you pervert."

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  27. That's a second by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And that must of been the second time when geeks are mentioned in the same breath with playboy, hot models, and boobs!

  28. RTFA by drtomaso · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally a slashdot post where I can RTFA.

  29. Re:Google? In Playboy? by hords · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you think the oo's will look like in Google's logo on when this is issue is released?

    gUUgle, I'm feeling lucky