The Next President of the U.S. Answers to Google
Insider Chatter presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”
The winner of the YouTube fueled democratic debate last evening? GOOGLE!
Sergey Brin has proudly underscored to Wall Street that there is no obvious ceiling to Google monetization. There is obviously no ceiling to Google’s ambition for power, as well.
Who is helping “choose” the next president of the United States? Google, and Google’s YouTube.
Google funded last May’s Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) “Technology is Changing Politics” conference in New York City, a masterful Google PR cum Political Business Development stroke, undoubtedly had by Google for a very reasonable price, CEO Eric Schmidt keynote honors included.
Google not only operates as if it is the “gateway to the Internet,” it aims to be the virtual Universe. Schmidt asserted at the PDF forum:
I don’t know that the Internet is more important than health care, but it almost is,” people need access to the (Google) Internet, for access to the modern world.
(Unfortunately, however, Google is NOT helping the world gain access to the Internet, despite its bravado about “open” broadband platforms; SEE Africa NOT Online: Will ‘Open’ Google ‘Put Up or Shut Up’?)
Speaking of health care, Schmidt spoke in depth about it at the Googleplex earlier in the year, Google’s version of it that is, in a tete a tete with the presidential front runner, Hillary Clinton. The result? Between Schmidt’s charm and Googlers’ money, Hillary for President is also Hillary for Google branded Personal Health Records.
(SEE Google, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Health Care)
Google is determined, in fact, to not only control all the world’s information, but to make sure “the presidential campaign trail winds though the Googleplex” as well.
The Google top brass, led by Googler in Chief Eric Schmidt, is enjoying the political fruits of intimate sit-downs with all who hope to become the next president of the United States, AND the not so humble, but very merry, band of Googlers are having their say, and their way, with the candidates, as they dutifully pay homage to the most powerful Internet company, and gateway sponsor of presidential debates.
Schmidt is fond of calling the Mountain View meet and greets part of the ultimate job interview for the top job in the U.S.
Google is succeeding in requiring the next president of the United States personally answer to Googlers, and to Google’s YouTubers.
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