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Posted by David Green, Policy Communications Over the past two years a new and burgeoning economy has grown quietly in the tech sector. Fueled by the boom in smartphones, programers and entrepreneurs have been attracting users and making money by bui…

Posted by Seth Webb, Senior Policy ManagerThere’s a saying: “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” As it turns out, a lot of legislative work today is done on paper and outdated templates, with data about …

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public PolicyIn April the Department of Commerce announced the formation of an Internet Policy Task Force to look at the various issues affecting economic growth and job creation through the Internet. Today, the task…

Posted by Don Harrison, Deputy General Counsel As we’ve said before, we understand that as Google grows, we’re going to face more questions about how our business works. We recognize the responsibility we have, and we are always open to hearing i…

Posted by Carter Maslan, Director of Product ManagementThis Sunday the Wall Street Journal published a story about local search that makes a number of assertions about how local search works at Google, so we thought it would be helpful to share our vie…

Posted by Kent Walker, General Counsel There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. It’s some pretty fantastic stuff – content that makes us think, laugh, and learn new thin…

Posted by John Lyman, Public Data Partnerships We launched Public Data Explorer in Google Labs nearly a year ago to help make the world’s public data more easily accessible and useful. Since then we’ve added a number of interesting datasets from U…

Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time to agonize over holiday gifts.But for me, holiday shopping has been transformed by the Internet. Like 106 million other Americans on Cyber Monday alone, I did much…

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Udi Manber, Vice President, Engineering(Cross-Posted from the European Public Policy Blog) At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first by providing the best p…

Posted by Larry Alder, Business Operations Principal About two years ago we announced an initial investment in O3b Networks, whose mission is to bring affordable, high-speed Internet access to emerging markets via satellite. Earlier today O3b announce…

Posted by Jenna Wandres, Public Policy CommunicationsBrilliant. Imaginative. Explosive. These are just some of things people are saying about Columbia professor Tim Wu’s new book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.Part histo…

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public PolicyLast summer Google Fellow Gwen Glazer at the American Library Association focused on digitization, specifically on for content from small or mid-sized public libraries and other cultural heritage institu…

posted by Heather West, Policy Analyst This afternoon Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon put the spotlight on an issue close to our heart and business operations: the need to protect and promote the free flow of information in international trade agreements….

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy Today we’re releasing a white paper [PDF] that explores the ways that governments impose limits on the free flow of information online. It’s pretty wonky stuff, but the premise is simple: In additio…

Posted by by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Policy Communications Forrester travel analyst Henry Harteveldt spoke on CNBC Tuesday about the Google-ITA Software acquisition, saying:…In the end, Google has made a legitimate and fair claim to buy ITA…