By
Nick Denton,
11:51 AM on Tue Jan 2 2007,
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In the weekend's
New York Times exploration of Google's office culture, there's a reference to the subcultures at the search engine giant. Google employees are generally called
googlers. Interest groups within the search engine company typically take the end of that word, and adapt the first syllable. So
nooglers are new Google employees, and
looglers work in the legal department. You get the idea. We hadn't heard of the
gayglers — gay googlers — before. But it turns out they even had a float at last year's San Francisco Pride parade. Which we mention only because it provides an excuse to run
photographs of a dorky gaygler excitedly posing with musclebond porn performers. Those black Google teeshirts, made for the event, ran a worthy motto,
I'm feeling proud. The original catchphrase of Google's search button,
I'm feeling lucky, would have been more appropriate.