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Google Employees - Including CEO - Gave Overwhelmingly to Democrats (98% to Dems)
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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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2004; campaignfinance; election; leftistmillionaires; mediabias; pc; politicalcorrectness
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To: bahblahbah
Raide your hand if you care?!? Let me guess..your one of those people who think that being homosexual is "no big deal"? Like none of us should care? Well.. you go right ahead with your moral adriftness and we'll go right on ahead with "discerning right from wrong".

"Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the False Heart doth know".

Macbeth

81 posted on 02/14/2005 8:42:44 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: G.Mason
Metacrawler and my preference, Dogpile, are owned by Infospace. Looks like they're heavier Rat donors than Pubbies, but seems better than Google by a country mile. Yahoo is as bad as google. Lycos, Altavista and Excite are about as bad (Excite is an Ask Jeeves Company, and they're leftist as hell, and Lycos is owned by Carnegie-Mellon University, which I figured as a non-profit and thought about--except its money goes to paychecks for leftist profs).

I think I'll stick with Dogpile, unless someone comes up with a better option.

82 posted on 02/14/2005 8:55:08 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: LibertarianInExile

How do I add a src file to Firefox?


83 posted on 02/14/2005 9:05:00 PM PST by harbinger of doom
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To: kendu

This article was about donations by Google employees, not by the corporation itself.


84 posted on 02/14/2005 9:41:15 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: harbinger of doom

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! #$@$@%@#@#@$#!).


85 posted on 02/14/2005 10:50:06 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: dware
"Check out www.metacrawler.com. It's at least as good."

" 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. ;)

86 posted on 02/15/2005 3:19:02 AM PST by G.Mason (The replies by this poster are meant for self amusement only. Read at your own discretion.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Google Employees - Including CEO - Gave Overwhelmingly to Democrats (98% to Dems)

Nevermind the fact it was the Democrats that lost the election. No amount of money will ever buy the White House.

87 posted on 02/15/2005 6:46:22 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: jackbill

I still wonder how it is that google makes money...


88 posted on 02/15/2005 7:18:53 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These bozos have been indoctrinated from their youth.


89 posted on 02/15/2005 7:20:41 AM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Google is a good search engine but not for news.

Its news searches have been, from my general impression, significantly skewed through distinct reliance on liberal news-medium sources and selection of (breaking) news stories that are themselves favorable to liberal/Democratic sectors.

Then there is the obverse - a tendency to omit (breaking) news stories unfavorable to the latter.
90 posted on 02/15/2005 9:49:46 AM PST by mtntop3 ("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
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To: ghannonf18

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.


91 posted on 02/15/2005 9:50:00 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: spycatcher

do they have a catch short name? search.msn.com is too difficulty to quickly type.


92 posted on 02/15/2005 9:55:54 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: mtntop3

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.


93 posted on 02/15/2005 10:00:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

MSN.com works fine for the search too


94 posted on 02/15/2005 11:07:08 AM PST by spycatcher
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw
All the dentists I know, save one, voted for GWB. I wouldn't knowingly associate with any who voted for John F'n sKerry...

You're down there in God's country. I'm just outside Philly and all the dentists I know are Ivy League professors :-(

95 posted on 02/15/2005 5:09:28 PM PST by Steve Eisenberg
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