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I guess because Google's Dutch auction was considered a failure.

It was only a failure for investment bankers who want to collect the profit of a pop on the IPO.

Perhaps a naive question, but how do they benefit from the IPO pop if they are required to hold for a quarter or two?

They benefit because the price of the stock post-pop is a better predictor of the price a quarter or two later than the price of the IPO.