Monday, June 18, 2007 at 7:09 AM Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs At 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 privacy, child online safety, copyright and [...]
Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Network 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 has followed the debate closely [...]
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 12:39 PM Posted by Pablo Chavez, Policy Counsel Today, 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 skills to work in the U.S. on a temporary basis — have [...]
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 9:17 PM Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public Affairs Another presidential candidate stopped by the Googleplex yesterday: former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. He’s the fourth presidential contender to stop by, following Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, and Gov. Bill Richardson. Sen. Edwards addressed a host [...]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:14 AM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel The 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 been pointed out by various studies, the vast majority of viable [...]
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 3:26 PM Posted by Pablo Chavez, Policy Counsel, and Keith Wolfe, Global Mobility Manager Google’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 allows foreign-born workers with specialized [...]
Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 3:25 PM 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 series of hearings looking at new technologies, and invited [...]
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 3:24 PM Posted by Olivier Esper, Policy Counsel, Google France The 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 representation of the election results, showing how each candidate [...]
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 3:23 PM Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public Affairs Late 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. Nelson’s map helps bring his Iraq trip alive, [...]
Monday, May 7, 2007 at 3:21 PM Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public Affairs This 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 Clinton was here in March). Googlers are pretty engaged [...]