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Yesterday, Google officially unveiled its newest blog: Google Public Policy. The blog, which carries the tagline “Google’s views on government, policy and politics,” is different than any other Google blog in that it has nothing to with their technology. The blog will instead be an outlet for Google’s views “on issues like net neutrality, censorship, innovation regulation, immigration, R&D, national security, and trade” (”just to name a few”). Google’s public policy team, who author the blog, say that they hope to foster a “dialogue” with Google users about political issues in order to “do a better job of fighting for our common interests.” But a new blog is just a small piece of Google’s strategy for influencing government policy.

Google is fast becoming a proving ground for top-tier US presidential candidates ahead of the upcoming 2008 election cycle. “Does Google want to be the 51st state this election season?” was a question recently posed in the San Jose Mercury News.

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