The Google IPO is off to a bumpy start, with the sale process of roughly 25.7 million shares being kicked off yesterday, despite the disclosure that a recent Playboy magazine interview with the company's founders might have violated the "quiet period" mandated by the SEC prior to an IPO.  Some observers claim that the interview might have overstated a few aspects of the Google search engine's performance.  My own take is that the SEC made the right decision to allow the IPO to go ahead, as planned, after Google publicly filed a copy of the interview with founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, with a list of corrections.

The Google August 13th prospectus is available at the Edgar SEC site, however the folks from the Google-Watch site have made available an easier-to-download Zipped copy at their site.  Please note that the Google-Watch site is in no way affiliated with Google.  Another good resource (also without any relationship with Google) is the Google IPO Central.