Google: U.S. Taxpayers To Finance GOOG Riches
YAY Google? Once again, $200 billion plus market cap Google envelopes its mission to gain cost-free access to and control of ALL the world’s information at Google.com–so it may sell high-priced, high margin ads against it–as a benevolent, altruistic effort to make the world a better place.
Google’s latest shrewd GOOG-centric maneuver has Senator Lieberman introducing a bill to amend the E-Government Act of 2002 seeking to reauthorize appropriations, and for other purposes.
The public facing PR arm of the high-powered Google Washington DC lobby machine–aka Google Public Policy Blog–waxes poetic about how it is “working to make publicly available government information more accessible to the public” and commends Lieberman’s Senate efforts to “help make government more searchable.”
While hailing the need for U.S. government transparency, however, Google itself is not engaging in political transparency.
Google does not disclose that its lobbying of elected U.S. government officials to require federal agencies to configure U.S. taxpayer financed systems to the optimal advantage of for-profit corporation Google may result in U.S. taxpayers funding the market growth of Google, to the advantage of the massive corporation’s shareholders.
Google is doing all in its power to ensure that the U.S. government conducts government by Google rules, underscoring that the bill requires federal agencies to ensure their compliance with Google-centric “best practices” for optimal Web “crawling” and directs the Office of Management and Budget to report anually to Congress on agencies’ progress in making U.S. Governement Websites Google-friendly.
In other Google words, Google aims to make sure that U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill to make Google.com the world’s one and only go-to destination for accessing their own information–and thereby make AdWords even more expensive for advertisers and even more profitable for Google.
What’s more, the Googleplex triumperate–Schmidt, Brin & Page–will hold the U.S. Government to the fire, on behalf of GOOG shareholders.
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