Google at Politics Online: Making News, Touting Tools
Last week, the big dog of the Internet world jumped the fence and bounded into DC: for the first time, Google was an inescapable presence at a Politics Online Conference, with a heavy sponsorship role, two full presentations and a Google Lounge (nice beanbag chair, guys). In the process, unwittingly, the company persuaded me which presidential candidate to back in ’08.
Besides the sponsorship, Google’s most visible role in the proceedings fell to Elliot Schrage, the company’s VP for Global Communications, whose Thursday afternoon presentation made a little news here, there and elsewhere, particularly his comments about the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit and the ease with which false information can spread through the ‘net (his defense of Google China got less notice).
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