November 20th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystA few months ago, I posed a question: what if consumers could buy their own super-fast fiber optic broadband connections? Rather than telephone and cable companies owning the wires that run into your home, what if…
November 19th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Dan Martin, Global Communications and Public AffairsAs we told you last week, tomorrow we’re hosting the first in a series of town-halls, “Tech Agenda 2009: Building an Infrastructure for a 21st Century Economy.”We’re trying something new for…
November 18th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsThere is no shortage of people coming to Washington these days with ideas for how to address some of the serious challenges we face. Today in D.C. our CEO Eric Schmidt o…
November 14th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselOn the heels of the FCC’s 5-0 vote to free the airwaves, Larry Page and Chairman Kevin Martin made a joint appearance before a packed session at the Wireless Communications Association confer…
November 13th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Dan Martin, Global Communications and Public AffairsEarlier this week we announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be in Washington next Tuesday to deliver a speech on the intersection between technology and the economy.Two days after Eric’…
November 13th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy Counsel(Cross-posted from Official Google Blog)Google search isn’t just about looking up football scores from last weekend or finding a great hotel for your next vacation. It can also be used for the public good. Y…
November 12th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Dorothy Chou, Global Communications and Public AffairsNext Tuesday, November 18, our CEO, Eric Schmidt will be speaking at the New America Foundation on the intersection between technology and the economy. He will explain how technology can h…
November 5th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal OfficerIn June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partne…
November 4th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of ProductsAll eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the “w…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections Team(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)On Tuesday, Americans across the country will vote (or finish voting), and we want you to find as much information as you’d like concerning this historic 2008 e…
October 29th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Google Creative Lab, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Elections Team(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)In less than two weeks, every vote will count as Americans decide who will become the next U.S. president…
October 28th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)In a world where governments all too often censor what their citizens can see and do on the Internet, Google has from the start pro…
October 28th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, and Chief Legal Officer(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Google was built on the principle of making the world’s information more accessible and useful. Before the compan…
October 27th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Galen Panger, Global Communications and Public AffairsEarlier this month, several of us recent college grads got the chance to sit down and chat with 35 scholars from the Hispanic College Fund about their interests and what it’s like to work …
October 24th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jen Marsh, Policy Analyst and Joe Sexton, Fellowship CoordinatorPassionate about freeing the white space airwaves? Excited about about privacy and data protection? Interested in the debates surrounding net neutrality? If you’re a undergraduat…