Google Blogoscoped has datamined a nice collection of pics depicting Google's searchworks in China. Usual assortment of infantilizing treats for the workers, plus the odd pic of Sergey Brin and the Google China boss, Kai-Fu Lee. Also includes actual documentary proof of Marissa Mayer putting ads above users.

NICK DOUGLAS — While dust gathers on our old VHS copies of Pirates of Silicon Valley (for us, Noah Wyle's career hit its high point with his role as Steve Jobs), it's time to cast the sequel. Starring the Daily Show's Demetri Martin as Digg founder Kevin Rose, Jason Bateman as Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht and Rush Limbaugh as John C. Dvorak, the show also includes stars playing Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Merlin Mann, and Google's Marissa Mayer.

NICK DOUGLAS — Quick update on the creepy laugh of Google VP Marissa Mayer (which I discovered last year): It's now the third most popular ringtone at Ringtone Soup, a site which allows users to upload and download clips for their phone. Maybe that's because of Jim Buckmaster. Friends say the CEO of Craigslist was obsessed with her laugh when Valleywag put it online, playing it over and over.

Disclaimer: Google has every reason to hunt down leakers by spreading false rumors.

Google VP and de facto spokesperson Marissa Mayer is at the Web 2.0 Summit discussing "What Google secretly discovered along the way." Opens with a story about running studies about Google, doing split A/B testing (giving a small group of users a different version of Google — a different font, different buttons, whatever).

• Drag this timeline back and forth to see who got swallowed when by Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google. [Shmula.com]

A reader called "Elite Office Services" asks Valleywag:

New York correspondent Benjamin Edison reports from a breakfast talk given by our favorite Google VP.

Valleywag intern Beth Gottfried is here to wrap up the best things you had to say this week.

Breaking News! During a deep investigation, we found Google's most media-saturating executive hiding in plain sight on the cover of Newsweek that's been out for days. Marissa Mayer's anti-biometric face-morphing technique ensured that millions of web programmers would stream right past her in the checkout line. God she's advanced.

After Newsweek named Marissa Mayer one of its "20 Powerful Women," her hometown paper (the Wausau Daily Herald) ran a this-is-your-life profile of the Google VP. The message is obvious: Marissa is a robot.

In a Wall Street Journal story on that quirky lil' Facebook founder (OMG he wears sandals! OMG he turns his phone off when he's with his girlfriend!), Mark Zuckerberg lets it drop that he often gets a full night's sleep.

A reader solves the question of why a Turing-tested Google VP and favorite Valleywag target ran away from me at a recent party.

After seeing Apple CEO Steve Jobs present the iTV, a box that wirelessly connects a computer to a TV. (And to think that before this, we used cords — how primitive!) Google VP Marissa Mayer told the press, "It's what I always wanted."

Last night, I cheated my way into a book party for California-based writer and web publisher Arianna Huffington at the San Francisco guest house of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and romance novelist Melanie Craft Ellison. First lesson: Don't go to a society event dressed for a Silicon Valley geek party. Second lesson: F. Scott Fitzgerald was right, the rich are not like you and me.

Lucky Magazine spread Marissa Mayer's gadgets across two pages of their September issue, along with priceless quotes like, "I'm so big on baking, I was actually contemplating opening a cupcake shop last summer."

The Guardian UK on Marissa Mayer, Google's VP and de facto spokesperson, August 25:

At a conference last week, Google's most public VP (Marissa "Evita" Mayer) was spotted crediting sites like Google Video for the rise of Z-list celebs. And, sadly, she's right — the Star-Wars-Kid news cycle shrank from months to hours, thanks to some low-rent stars, not all of them new. Says Mayer:

Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products, User Experience, and Puff Pieces, gets interviewed and profiled in today's Guardian. This time, it's for her brilliant insight into the role of Internet video. Things we learned from this piece:

• The Sun hosts an exclusive Webchat with Marissa Mayer, Google's Director of Consumer Products. Our first question for the lovely Marissa: Google bitching aside, just how miffed is she that we excluded her from our Web 2.0 Hotties Competition? [The Sun Online]