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 $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
"Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the False Heart doth know".
Macbeth
I think I'll stick with Dogpile, unless someone comes up with a better option.
How do I add a src file to Firefox?
This article was about donations by Google employees, not by the corporation itself.
Here's my understanding of doing that process directly:
Copy it to your desktop and CTRL-C it.
Go to the Firefox installation directory [in winXP under C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox]
Open the searchplugins folder
Paste the .src file.
Dunno if that will work, seems like it oughta if you're having trouble. I'm not a Firefox authority, though. I will be using IE until I feel safe enough migrating to FF (and until I can get my stupid site admin up here to permit me to do it! #$@$@%@#@#@$#!).
" Not quite. Once one knows the ins & outs of Google.com, one will hardly want to turn away. You would be hard pressed to find a search engine that can even come close to rivaling Google."
Not that I don't make silly statements here on FR, but that quote is not mine. ;)
Nevermind the fact it was the Democrats that lost the election. No amount of money will ever buy the White House.
I still wonder how it is that google makes money...
These bozos have been indoctrinated from their youth.
stop using it and get all your family and friends to stop using it. If enough of us do it, then there "hits" will go down.
do they have a catch short name? search.msn.com is too difficulty to quickly type.
Good observations, IMO. For the time being I'll plan to continue using Google for most searches, but certainly won't use them as a current news source.
MSN.com works fine for the search too
You're down there in God's country. I'm just outside Philly and all the dentists I know are Ivy League professors :-(
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