Posted on 03/28/2015 3:48:35 PM PDT by xzins
A former Google officer is the president’s chief technology adviser. Google employees contributed more to President Obama’s re-election than did employees of any other company except Microsoft. Google lobbyists met with Obama White House officials 230 times. By comparison, lobbyists from rival Comcast have been admitted to the inner sanctum a mere 20 or so times in the same period.
Obama lieutenant David Plouffe boasts: “On Election Night [Schmidt] was in our boiler room in Chicago,” he told Bloomberg News, in a story that revealed that for the campaign Schmidt “helped recruit talent, choose technology and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization.”
Favors beget favors. And hey, presto, the FTC, in 2012, ignored the recommendations of its own staffers, which accused Google of abusive trade practices for burying competitors in their search results and recommended a lawsuit.
Instead, the FTC dropped its inquiry. Google enjoys 67 percent market share, 83 percent in mobile. No biggie, declared the FTC.
Google lobbyists have been pushing for implementation of “net neutrality” regulations, particularly a “Title II” provision that would benefit Google. President Obama helpfully came out in support of the plan, including Title II, which was slightly embarrassing because Obama’s FCC chair, Tom Wheeler, had favored a different approach. Wheeler promptly reversed course and backed the Obama-Google plan.
Right before the FCC report was due, but before it was made public, the FCC pulled another odd reversal, removing 15 pages of policy Google apparently found out about but didn’t like.
It’s not like Google is ungrateful for all of this special attention. When the newly launched ObamaCare website was plagued by evil spirits, guess which company sent them?
Still, all of this is easily forgiven compared to what’s coming next: politically filtered information.
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Slash & Burn Anti-Trust lawsuit bump for later...
Yahoo and Google are two different companies.
However Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google exec, is an Obama bundler.
Anti Crony Capitalism
As best I can tell Bing is the only other search engine of note that is not Google. All the others use Google to search.
google is the government
Statement: Google controls what we buy, the news we read
Reaction:
1. Google does not enter into what I buy at all. I use Adblock Plus to stop the ads. Never see them. I use Ghostery to stop ad trackers. Most of the time I use a search engine other than Google.
2. Don’t have a TV to watch. 90% of the news I get is from Free Republic. Another 5% comes from other web sites and the final 5% comes from miscellaneous sources: an occasional glance at a newspaper, friends, relatives, etc.
I’ve been using Bing for some time now. I do have gmail, though.
Google only sees what you show it...
Bing is owned by Microsoft.
It’s not just the liberals. It is the elites who are in control of it all. We are just puppets who volunteered to be tracked day and night.
If we’re not doing anything wrong.....right? /s
Back in the last presidential election I noticed that ANYTHING you entered about the election was spun in favor of Obama.
It’d lead back to stories favorable to Obama’s position on every issue. You had to go to the 4th or 5th page (which people never do) to find anything useful.
Kill all the techies first!
No there a few I would keep, but ya most should go.
So, scratch Google. Scratch Bing. What's left? Why
RTFA.
The article claims, "Google employees contributed more to President Obama’s re-election than did employees of any other company except Microsoft." LOL!
Even though recursive acronyms are not Microsquish's forte!
One poster above recommended DuckDuckGo.com
I haven’t found that it is supported by Google in any way, and it even appears that Google discriminates against it.
All four get it, but I'd have to rate #2 as my first choice.
Yahoo search is actually Bing.
We got more employees than Google :)
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