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"Googirl" article vanishes from Web

115,000 copies of San Francisco magazine, on newsstands throughout the city, name Marissa Mayer as Google's "Googirl." But on the Web, the article has gone missing. Could the editors have belatedly Googled "googirl"? The 13-page profile has been reposted with the humdrum headline "The adventures of Marissa." Boring. They could at least have gone with "Marissa explains it all." Any other suggestions for a replacement headline?

7:55 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Owen Thomas
12,825 views, 19 comments

great moments in journalism

Marissa Mayer not really that kinky

I tried not to go there, really I did: San Francisco magazine's profile of Google cupcake princess Marissa Mayer is titled "Googirl". I'm guessing they didn't actually Google "googirl" before publishing. But if Marissa really is Google's googirl? You go, girl.

1:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
16,417 views, 15 comments

google

Marissa Mayer gets the cupcake treatment

The only shocker in Julian Guthrie's profile of Marissa Mayer for San Francisco magazine: That the "gorgeously geeky Googler" is well-respected within the Googleplex. Perhaps among the executives Google PR trotted out for the ritual encomiums, but not among the rank and file. One engineering group so loathed Mayer that they threw a party when they were assigned a new boss. A ray of hope for anyone still suffering under Mayer's lash: In this piece, she announces that she may leave the company in two years. If, on the other hand, you can't get enough of Mayer, here's some obsessive biographical detail exerpted from "Googirl," as well as the article's opening shot: More »

3:20 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Owen Thomas
104,378 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: 1. could she be more nouveau? 2. did she actually know that she was being interviewed for a piece that would be like, published? I hope she has good upper body strength bc with this in print her climb is going more »

conflicts of interest

"San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics

A recent piece on Yelp written for San Francisco magazine by one Karen Solomon roughs up the local-reviews website, but Solomon's critiques are mostly on target: The site's audience is insular and dominated by Bay Area residents; it has struggled to expand to other cities and define a business model. Just one small problem: San Francisco magazine reviews local businesses. In between throwing lavish parties, Yelp runs a website which lets its users do the same. So the two compete, at least in theory. More »

11:43 AM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,688 views, 5 comments

Latest by valleychick: she's right. selling ads is a totally iffy business model. particularly when slighted restaurants are dying to buy them and run them against more popular competitors. wtf? i agree yelp needs to break out in other cities the way it more »