Phil Shapiro tells of how he met Google chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf back in 1998:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/08/contributor_to.html

"Vint Cerf adds weight to Google in the same way that Whoopi Goldberg added mental tonnage to Flooz.com and Lee Majors added gravitas to Kozmo.com."

http://valleywag.com/tech/google/what-does-vint-cerf-do-at-google-294143.php

He was giving a talk at the New York Google Speakers Seminar two months ago – and was very friendly to the audience members who approached him