Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin

PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy is stirring up a “Posties” revolt, spurring “everyday (i.e. PayPerPost) bloggers” to “write Google, and their Congressman.”

Just as Murphy took to the PayPerPost blog to lambast Google for “censorship” and a “monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertisng,” however, Google’s fave presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was patting Google and its merry band of multi-millionaire Googlers on their backs during a mutual love fest cum personal political rally under the direction of CEO Eric Schmidt and team at the Googleplex.

Obama is the seventh candidate hoping to be the next president of the United States to make his or her campaign pilgimage to Mountain View. Bill Richardson undoubetdly still is sporting his scars from his “ultimate job interview,” as host Elliot Schrage, VP Global Communications and Public Affairs, led a visceral interrogation of the Governor, spurring Silicon Valley media to cheerfully portray Richardson’s performance as “awkward” and “bumbling.”

Schrage was quoted for condescendingly retorting to his guest, Governor Richardson: “Our nutritionist may end up running for president.”

Barack Obama was welcomed as the favorite Google son, though, with the Official Google Public Policy Blog fawning over the Congressman as the defacto honorary Googler in Chief. Obama has himself to thank, he put in a rocket scientist worthy performance, prepared even to “have a ready answer for a standard Google engineering question.”

Obama also proved himself worthy of the hefty Googler political contributions coming his way: The Obama “technology platform” is a shamelessy pro-Google one.

Moral of the Obama-PayPerPost story? Murphy ought to encourage his “Posties” to “write Obama,” rather than their “congressmen” about any evil Google doing!

What are the alleged Google bad deeds, according to Murphy? Google may have revamped its own proprietary way of evaluating Web page quality for its own use in its own proprietary systems, i.e. the mighty PageRank.

Murphy is calling for a revolt against Google because not only does he believe his PayPerPost blog network is potentially impacted by prospective potential changes in “free” traffic referred by private company Google’s search engine changes, but Murphy has himself used Google’s private, proprietary PageRank calculations as currency to sell his own blog advertising products, characterized by him as “attractive alternatives” to Google AdSense.

Murphy may be able to make a case against Google, nevertheless. After all, Google flaunts that its mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and usefull” and “Posties” posts are decidely part of the “world’s information”!

Murphy is not helping his anti-Google campaign, though, by proudly taking advantage of “Google Custom Search” to power the PayPerPost blog.

PLUS: Google’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: AdWords Inflation AND Google: U.S. Taxpayers To Finance GOOG Riches

PLUS: Paglo CEO ‘Nuts’ Over FREE ‘Google For IT’: INTERVIEW

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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.

MORE ON GOOGLE U.S. GOVERNMENT RULES: The Next President of the U.S. Answers to Google AND
Google CEO Schmidt: Anti-Microsoft Lawyers Good, Viacom Lawyer in Chief Bad AND
Google to World: AdWords Need Political Freedom AND
Google on Government, Schools: Google Search to the Rescue AND
Google Masters Art of Influence Peddling AND
Cisco to Google: Get Real! AND
Eric Schmidt: Google Cures What Ails the World AND
How Google Library Displaces Librarians

ALSO: Google’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: AdWords Inflation

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What a difference two weeks makes in the months long Viacom $1 billion lawsuit against Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”?

In the court of public opinion, Google CEO Eric Schmidt delighted at personally ridiculing Viacom’s CEO Phillipe Dauman during the Allen & Co. conference, insinuating a corporate ambulance chasing leader.

In a court of law yesterday, however, Schmidt apparently instructed the Google legal team to strike a more conciliatory tone.

Just three days ago, I underscored that if YouTube proactively screened for copyright infringing videos, as News Corp. does at MySpace, then there would be no need for Google to use the DMCA as umbrella cover for its current business model designed to commercially exploit video content owned by others without paying for the right to use the copyright property.

SEE How Google Abuses DMCA, NOT Universal Music: Sorry EFF & ‘Mom’

Has Google had a change of heart now that it has seen the inside of a court room? Unlikely.

Google’s “defense” yesterday included telling the presiding judge that Google is working on a software solution to mitigate the unauthorized uploading of copyright video content to YouTube and will have it operational sometime in the Fall.

BUT, Google has not met any of its publicly declared timetables for YouTube “filtering” technology, originally promising it for December 2006. What’s more, Google comments in court yesterday about how the technology will work were at odds with Schmidt’s ongoing characterizations.

Who? When? What? to believe? Google continues its DMCA game, big time, while Viacom is continuing its $1 billion showdown.

ALSO: Google CEO Schmidt: Anti-Microsoft Lawyers Good, Viacom Lawyer in Chief Bad and YouTube Copyright Infringement Claims ‘tip of the iceberg’

PLUS: Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Lindsay Lohan of Online Video?

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The Google Public Policy blog touts the Googler in chief’s “summer of public policy.”

Translation: The top Google pitch man, CEO Eric Schmidt, is on a whirlwind Google rules road show.

Cisco’s John Earnhard and myself were on the Google money when we pegged the launch of the Google Public Policy blog last month as the latest, greatest propaganda tool for Google speak; SEE Cisco to Google: Get Real!

Google is living up to the its Google way or the highway tradition; Alan Davidson, Google’s DC lobbyist in chief, shares with the world today how his boss, “Eric,” is touring the country to spread the Google gospel on how it intends to not only rule the Internet, but the actual world, really.

Education: Who needs reform, just do more Google searches in the classroom, thanks to the “Google Certified Teacher” indoctrination program; SEE Google on Government, Schools: Google Search to the Rescue

Video Diplomacy: Who needs humanitarian aid for “children in Africa,” thanks to Chad Hurley’s snack-sized clip culture legacy; SEE Africa NOT Online: Will ‘Open’ Google ‘Put Up or Shut Up’?

Government: Who needs independent public servants, thanks to Google and YouTube dependency; SEE The Next President of the U.S. Answers to Google

Public Libraries: Who needs librarians, thanks to the Google Library; SEE How Google Library Displaces Librarians

Censorship: Who needs free speech, thanks to Google AdWords for sale; SEE Google to World: AdWords Need Political Freedom

Healthcare: Who needs to rely on doctors, thanks to Google Health; SEE Google Sicko Timeline: Attack, Retract, Pander

Wireless: Who needs real openness, thanks to Google hypocricy; SEE Google Wants Openness? Start With NYC Googleplex!

WHO NEEDS GOOGLE (to rule the world) IS WHAT THE WORLD SHOULD FINALLY WAKE UP TO!

ALSO: Cloud Illusions: Microsoft, Google, Facebook Battle for Computing Heaven

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Insider Chatter presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”

The Next President of the U.S. Answers to Google

And, THE User Generated Politics debate question of last evening’s YouTube CNN democratic candidates debate: Chris Nolan, a democratic operative from illinois, queried abut the unseemlyness of having a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton U.S. presidential dynasty.

I have been asking the same thing; The U.S. is not Britan, after all!

Nwe York Senator Hillary Clinton, former first lady to president Bill Clinton and frontrunner to become the next president of the United States proudly declared at ther campaign Website in May: “Governor Spitzer, thousands turn out to support campaign.”

Pictures say a thousand words! Looking closely at the photograph below, Hillary has literally replaced Bill in pressing the flesh of the adoring throngs (only missing piece, of course, a Lewinsky style nod).

Below the showcase shot of Hillary in action for campaign 2008 at the campaign’s Website was a duet of photos: portraits of Hillary and Bill side by side, or rather, portraits of President Clinton and former First Lady, Senator Clinton.

Surreal or only in America? Clinton is firmly behind Clinton; HE is looking forward to returning to the White House, at HER side.

IS Hillary concerned that she is the new Bill? NO, the right man for THIS job is a woman, Hillary Rodham proclaimed last evening, via YouTube.

SEE The Next President of the U.S. Answers to Google

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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.

ALSO: Google Masters Art of Influence Peddling and User Generated Politics Slams U.S. Royal Dynasties

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