Posted by Johanna Shelton, Policy Counsel and Legislative StrategistIn less than four months, U.S. television broadcasting will switch from analog to digital, a more efficient and higher quality transmission system. At midnight on February 17, 2009, al…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)There’s more than one important vote going on this Election Day. On November 4, as Americans cast their ballots for President of the United States…
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)There’s some interest in how and why “quality scores” are used in search engine ad auctions. In this post, we will try to describe “why” we use quality scores; a later pos…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselFor nearly two years, a broad-based coalition of public interest groups and technology companies including Google has been advocating for unlicensed uses of the largely vacant airwaves betwee…
Posted by Ginny Hunt, Google Elections TeamAs election day approaches on November 4, Google is working with state and local election officials across the country to make voter information as widely available and as accurate as possible. Today, we anno…
Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet EvangelistI recently returned from a trip to Europe and discovered some interesting thinking there about the Internet. Last week the European Commission launched a debate about whether broadband now needs to be consi…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselIf you’re one of the many folks not familiar with the basics of white spaces (don’t worry, it is complicated), the folks at the People’s Production House have put together a new video that ex…
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsSome people have questions about our advertising agreement with Yahoo! and there are some misconceptions about it. So today we are putting facts about the deal on a ne…
Posted by Jacob Glick, Canada Policy CounselDuring this federal election campaign in Canada, the leaders of four of Canada’s political parties – Stephen Harper, Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Elizabeth May – are giving users an insight into how …
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telcom and Media CounselFollowing a previous visit to D.C. earlier this year, Google co-founder Larry Page hit Capitol Hill today with a simple message to the Federal Communications Commission: after five years of te…
Posted by Patricia Moll, International Policy ManagerAs Vint Cerf wrote last December, “Google is dedicated to supporting parents’ efforts to educate and protect their children when they go online.” Through policies like YouTube’s Community Guidelines …
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselEarlier this year Google co-founder Larry Page was in our nation’s capital to talk about Google’s vision of “wi-fi on steroids.” At an event sponsored by the New America Foundation, he expla…
Posted by Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising and Commerce, North AmericaYesterday I wrote about the impact of our recent advertising agreement with Yahoo! on advertising prices. There have also been some questions posed about the deal’s impact on c…
Posted by Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising and Commerce, North AmericaAs Hal Varian wrote earlier this week, there’s been some recent discussion about the impact of our recent advertising agreement with Yahoo!. While Hal addressed a recent study …
Posted by Rishi Jaitly, Policy Analyst, South AsiaHow do we develop points of view about places we have not seen and people we have not met?Newspapers, TV networks, film studios, radio broadcasters, and book publishers have, of course, exerted signific…