Not in the Google SERP (search engine results page) but as a lead manager for its planned $2.7 billion initial public offering.

But when Google learned Goldman Sachs' chairman and chief executive Henry Paulson had contacted one of the search engine's big investors, Kleiner Perkins, it deemed this as breaking the rules and bumped them from contention, Newsweek said.

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