Oh well looks like I'm going to have to find a new search engine!
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Posted on 02/14/2005 1:05:43 PM PST by PDR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Employees of U.S.-based search engine Google gave $207,650 to federal candidates for the 2004 elections -- virtually all of it to Democrats.
A USA Today analysis published Monday indicated 98 percent of the money went to Democrats, the most-lopsided giving of any of the top tech company donors.
Microsoft was the biggest tech donor, with its political action committee contributing $3.1 million last year, 60 percent to Democrats.
Overall, 53 percent of high-tech industry contributions went to Democrats, said the liberal Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks campaign spending and contributions.
Republicans must work hard to win support from a company whose employees seem philosophically wed to Democrats, CRP's Larry Noble said.
Google declined to discuss employee campaign contributions but the among the company's top 2004 givers was Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, whose biggest single donation was $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
I can't figure that out.
Oh well looks like I'm going to have to find a new search engine!
even more surprising when you consider that the GOP controlled both houses of congress and the white house.
The really serious problem is that Google imposes it's political biases on its search engine.
I'm working determinedly to eliminate as much Microsoft as I can from my life. Google's gonna be tough though....
I switched to Clusty.
but but but I thought evil republicans controlled the tech sector and all of the software companies. Didn't they rig the electronic vote machines after all???? (sarcasm)
I will do my best to avoid google from now on.
WTF? What is the nature of the quid pro quo? WHAT IS GOOGLE BUYING?
Which part???
"Google declined to discuss employee campaign contributions"
They must be aware that a loss of conservative dollars could spell real problems for them. Anyone got any ideas about non Google search tools?
Oh well looks like I'm going to have to find a new search engine!
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Yep, Google is BLACK-BALLED!!! DEAD.
Boycott everything!
As you may remember, Howard Dean was raising money illegally from Canada and Europe. This news was forgotten once Dean dropped out of the Presidential race. This may now be the norm in the DNC.
It looks like the Clintons and Reno taught Microsoft a lesson: Pay up or we'll make things hard on you.
"Microsoft was the biggest tech donor, with its political action committee contributing $3.1 million last year, 60 percent to Democrats."
Who said Bill Gates wasn't a demoncRAT? (rhetorical)
Just repalced google with MSN's engine on my bookmarks. At least Gates & Co. are smart enough to spread their love ($$) to both parties.
Ok - now I am really confused... or maybe I just need my 3rd coffee. "indicated 98 percent of the money went to Democrats"... that does not seem right.
Substantiation?
Really? How do they do that??
Might I suggest...
http://www.altavista.com/
Any other search engine will do. I'll be modifying my useage of Google today.
www.dogpile.com
Try A9.com
www.dogpile.com -- It's worth a try.
Well, that's pretty rough. NOTHING is as good as Google. And the new maps.google.com beats all the other map sites I've seen COLD.
Dan
/c8
It's simple. They're so rich they are naturally guilty liberals. It makes them 'feel good' to hand out a few thousand of their millions to 'help' the disadvantaged because everyone knows the Dems help the disadvantaged.
I guess being brilliant in science doesn't make you brilliant the more mudane aspects of life. Like politics.
How can you do that? A search engine isn't a person. It is just a piece of technology that looks up what you ask it to look up.
Darn! I love my gmail account too!
yep
My question is- is there a law against political affiliations with websites?> Just because it is a serch engine??? I am just curious.
I never could figure out all the hype with Google. I've always used Yahoo! search engine and it works just fine.
Last Year if you entered " Weapons of Mass Destruction" into Google's searach engine and clicked "I'm feeling lucky", a spoof page of the message for a crashed browser would appear. However, if you read the fine print, it was a total slam on Bush and how he is a liar, etc. It got pulled after awhile. I knew right then that Google was filled with leftists. (I also remember some leftist student asking John Kerry if he "googled himself" on the campaign trail).
It seems to me that theses businesses would be better off with Republicans in control. The Democrats want to tax them to death. Why in the world would they give so much money to the ones that want to tear them down?
That is untrue. I just did it. The first pic of Bush is a nice shot. The second pic of Kerry is a spoof, the first is a crudely drawn political cartoon. Realize that the links change constatntly and are re-evaluated in real-time.
You are suprised that a california company with technical people would be liberal? These people don't have kids and don't do "physical" labor. I would be surpised if they didn't go liberal. You'd think berkley would have some sort of conservative element, but they've forsaken science and only use it when they try and prove wacky liberal propaganda.
Besides their buddy gore did invent the internet.
Overpaid, techno workers loving the Nanny State!!!
IMHO, GOOGLE is evil and anti-traditional American culture.
There is no Second ammendment as far as these twerps are concerned.
If you must use GOOGLE, use DOGPILE, (www.dogpile.com) instead. As a meta search engine it uses Google and a bunch of other search engines so Google's hits do not exceed the other engines. Thus giving those twerps no advantage in hit counts.
Not to mention that dogpile comes up with a more "diverse" search result! (OK that was uncalled for, but true anyhow)
I do not think there is a little Dem behind the curtain choosing the pictures. From what I understand, there is an algorithm by the number of hits... Am I off on this?
Well, everything except FR.
Shalom.
No! do not boycott FR!!!
LMAO! Are you with the Kerry campaign?!
"From what I understand, there is an algorithm by the number of hits... Am I off on this?"
You are entirely correct. The search engine displays in order based on the number of links and hits. They may contribute to the dems heavily, but I doubt that they rig the engine.
My first Image search on Dogpile brought this link with the very first picture. http://www.bocm.us/links.htm on that Page is a link to Protestwarrior and Freerepublic.
I was looking for a photo of Larry the cable guy.
Their employees are young and stupid. Things will change when the realize that it's the Dems who want to tax them out of everything they're earning at one of the few surviving dot coms. Generally speaking, as people acquire wealth, the find that they have something to protect and that it's the Democrat Party from which that something needs protecting.
The google news page is pretty liberal . And so is the Valley. Wait until they have to start paying taxes on all those options . Future Google Republicans ;-)
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