June 22nd, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government AffairsThe Associated Press is running a story headlined “Google Asks Government to Fight Censorship.” The story highlights some (until now) fairly quiet discussions we’ve been …
June 21st, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Liz Eraker, Policy AnalystEarlier we told you about how Sen. Ben Nelson used Google Earth and Maps to illustrate his trip to Iraq. Yesterday, a state government official hit Capitol Hill to talk about how his agency is using Google Earth for …
June 19th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Policy CounselNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a guy who knows firsthand about using technology to make information more available — visited the Googleplex yesterday to see the campus and talk to Googlers about a broad …
June 18th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government AffairsAt the beginning of 2005, I was Google’s lone public policy guy. Today, there’s a bigger – and growing – team of us scattered around the world, working on issues like priva…
June 16th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselNetwork neutrality — the concept that the Internet should remain free and open to all comers — has been a major public policy priority for Google over the last two years. But anyone who ha…
June 6th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Policy CounselToday, there are literally hundreds of examples of immigrants and non-immigrant foreign workers playing a vital role at Google. Googlers holding H-1B visas — which allow foreign-born workers with specialized ski…
June 1st, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsAnother presidential candidate stopped by the Googleplex yesterday: former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. He’s the fourth presidential contender to stop by, following S…
May 23rd, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThe U.S. government’s current spectrum policies have an unfortunate tendency to block out new entrants and innovative new uses of spectrum, such as widely-available Internet access. As has b…
May 14th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Policy Counsel, and Keith Wolfe, Global Mobility ManagerGoogle’s continued success depends on our ability to recruit and retain the best and brightest. One of the tools we’ve used to do that is the U.S. H-1B visa program, which…
May 10th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jamie Brown, Federal Relations Counsel There’s a lot of interest here in Washington about online video and some of the policy issues surrounding its explosive growth. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been holding a serie…
May 9th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Olivier Esper, Policy Counsel, Google FranceThe French presidential elections have just finished and Nicolas Sarkozy was elected with approximately 53% of the votes. In the French version of Google Earth, you can now view a three-dimensional …
May 8th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsLate last week, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson unveiled his own twist on Google’s new My Maps feature: a video- and photo-filled geographic tour of his recent visit to Iraq.Sen. N…
May 7th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsThis year we’ve invited all the presidential candidates to come visit Google, and last Friday we hosted Sen. John McCain for the second of these candidate visits (Sen. Hillary …
April 24th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselLater this year, the federal government plans to auction off spectrum — the invisible airwaves that have brought us radio and television service — as part of the transition from analog to d…
April 10th, 2007 | by Adam Kovacevich | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsRemember the Coke and Pepsi TV ads from the “cola wars” of the 80s and 90s, when the cola giants sponsored taste tests, hired rock stars, and spent a lot of time arguing that o…