Posted on 02/14/2005 4:00:18 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Search engine is cash engine for Democrats
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.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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A Freeper told months ago how they kept cancelling his Google ad that linked to a site that sold conservative bumper stickers and such. No such policy regarding the exact same merchandise of liberal persuasion, though.
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removed the searchplugins. thanks!
Yahoo used to be good because from 2002-2004 it used googles search engine.
It switched to its own search engine in February 2004.
I won't use Google anymore.
I use Google alot. BUt I'll NEVER buy from any of it's sponsors or services. Yahoo is worse than google.
Good to know.
Try my favorite search site...
vivisiom.com
Cluster searches make for quicker results.
Is there something wrong with that? (Reply posted from my circa 1999-2000 computer.)
By Google!!!
metacrawler is apparently owned by Infospace. Check out the principals at:
http://www.infospaceinc.com/corpinfo/exec/
I checked a few of them at www.opensecrets.org and it looks like at least as many gave to Republicans as gave to RATs. They are apparently based in Bellvue, WA and I noted contributions to Jennifer Dunn, Bush, etc., as well as one board member from AOL who gave to Kerry. Too bad. He lost his money.
You could try contacting them at gblog@google.com
Their blog is located here- http://www.google.com/googleblog/
The big advantage to me of google is their cache, so you can see sites when they are down and/or as they were a few days ago. I remember when the Saudi embassy for the first time put out a visa web page and it said, accurately, no Jews allows. They changed it, after a day or two of scandal, in order to hide their true policy, but you could still see the old page on google. I do not think any other search engine can match this because google has such an enormous bank of computers.
I don't normally worry about the politics of people I am paying for goods and services, so I certainly am not going to worry when I don't pay. How much money do you pay your dentist, and how many of them are Democrats?
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