By
Nick Denton,
9:00 AM on Wed Jan 3 2007,
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The Google guys are looking a little sharper these days. Which is to say that we haven't seen
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin in capes, recently. One might guess the sobering influence of their girlfriends; Sergey Brin, we heard, got engaged over the holidays. But the founders' partners both probably think their boyfriends look adorable when they pretend they're going to a Trekkie convention. So we're inclined to believe an alternative explanation doing the rounds at Google: the cublicle gossip, unconfirmed, attributes the search engine founders' sharp new look to a professional stylist.