Net a 'Force for Democracy' says Google's Schmidt
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Search giant's CEO didn't address Googe's role, but says the Net boosts government transparency.
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One of the net's founding fathers rejects calls for strict regulation of what people put online.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ has launched a blog focused on U.S. government legislation and regulation, one sign of the company's growing interest in Washington, D.C., affairs. The blog is part of Google's efforts to step up its focus on the U.S. government since early 2005. Last year, it was one of the leading Web-based companiesÂ calling on Congress to pass net neutrality rulesÂ that would prohibit broadband carriers from blocking or slowing Web content offered by their competitors. This year, Google has joined a debate on how the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should auction 60MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz band being vacated by U.S. television stations. Google has called on the FCC toÂ open up biddingÂ to small companies through real-time auctions and designate a chunk of the spectrum for wireless broadband services. Google is also focused on issues such as privacy and copyright protection, said a post on the blog Monday. Google launched the blog internally two months ago but opened it to the public Monday. Google has recentlyÂ complained to the U.S. Department of JusticeÂ about what it sees as antitrust violations in Microsoft's Vista operating system. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission in May also began investigating Google's proposedÂ $3.1 billion purchaseÂ of online advertising seller DoubleClick. Google now has eight senior policy and public relations employees and four support employees in Washington, compared to just one public policy staffer in early 2005. "We're seeking to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way," Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of public policy and government affairs, wrote on the blog. "We want our users to be part of the effort, to know what we're saying and why, and to help us refine and improve our policy positions and advocacy strategies. With input and ideas from our users, we'll surely do a better job of fighting for our common interests. "This blog is part of the dialogue we're hoping to foster."
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Eric Schmidt, Chief  Executive Officer, will present at the following investor events:  Morgan Stanley Technology Conference Monday, March 5, 2007 3:15 p.m. ET / 12:15 p.m.
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Google Australia on Friday unveiled what it described as the world&#39;s most powerful dedicated election website, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
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Marketer says left-leaning groups are miles ahead in using the Internet for political advocacy.
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The Internet and its abuses are a reflection of the people who use it, said Vinton Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has formed a political action committee to exert pressure on the U.S. Congress and promote legislation that benefits the company. The group, called Google NetPAC, saw the light on Thursday, when Google registered it with the U.S. Federal Election Commission, a Google spokesman confirmed via e-mail. "Google NetPAC will support officeholders and candidates who share Google's goal of preserving and promoting the Internet as a free and open platform for information, communication, and innovation," the spokesman wrote. A key legislative and regulatoryÂ concern for Google is net neutrality. Its executives favor a law to force broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast to give all traffic on their networks the same quality of service and speed. In addition to Google, other Internet companies like Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon.com support net neutrality andÂ want Congress to prohibit broadband providersÂ from blocking or degrading Web content and services from potential competitors. Opponents, which include broadband providers and network equipment vendors like Cisco Systems and Qualcomm, say a net neutrality law will let Internet companies like Google continue toÂ ride for "free"Â on broadband networks. Such a law will prevent broadband providers from charging Web companies new fees for higher speeds and a better quality of service, money needed to build faster networks for new bandwidth-intensive services like Internet TV, net neutrality opponents say. If companies like Google don't pay extra, then broadband providers will have to increase fees to consumers, they say. Other regulatory and legislative issues that are likely of concern for Google include Internet privacy, stock-option accounting, law-enforcement access to search engine records and copyright protection. Google also hired former Republican senators Dan Coats and Connie Mack as outside lobbyists, the Google spokesman confirmed. "We've hired outside firms from across the political spectrum that offer effective expertise to communicate our policy messages," he wrote. Other high-tech companies with political action committees include Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon.com, eBay and AOL's parent company Time Warner.
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... but I am as confident as I am   that the Sun will rise tomorrow that it will be safe from terrorists.   After all, we have the children to think about.    It seems that David Clark, who led the development of  the Internet way back in the '70's - did you know there  even was a '70's? -  wants to     create a whole new Internet that will fix many of the problems the   current Internet is plagued with.  The New Internet's engineers will be  much more careful this time around to make sure it works better than  the first one did.    I'm afraid, though, that the engineers are not the only ones  who will be deciding how our New Internet will work.      If one is able to find any   privacy or anonymity in this New Internet,   it will be because of some undiscovered     security hole, which will be   quickly repaired, rather than any kind of conscious design decision.    Probably one reason they are accepting proposals before rolling it out   is to avoid the sort of accidental security holes that enable pr0n,   peer-to-peer filesharing and   left-wing political activism.
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By James Ashton  GOOGLE has seen the future - and it's personal. Undeterred by ongoing rows over privacy, Eric Schmidt, boss of the 80bn internet giant, proclaims 'personal search is the next phenomenon'.  By that he means services such as iGoogle, which is 'exploding in use'.
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The U.S. space program should look to collaboration and open systems to drive the next wave of human exploration and innovation, Google Chairman and C.E.O. Eric Schmidt said.
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By KELLY OLSEN  SEOUL, South Korea - Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday his company is committed to expanding its presence in South Korea, a market that has proven a challenge for the world's No. 1 search engine.
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Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg contends that Google's purchase of DoubleClick will give it broad amounts of data about individual Internet users, with few legal limits on what it could do with that data.
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The growth of the Internet will bring with it public policy challenges, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt -- as well as efforts by some governments to clamp down on the spread of information.
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Google's Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.
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newsmaker Deep Nishar, Google's director of product management, sees mobility as the next new frontier of the Internet.
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Marketer says the left-leaning groups are miles ahead in using the Internet for political advocacy.