The winner of the 2008 presidential election will be the candidate who uses the internet the best according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
After listing several examples of politicians who were victims of highly effective internet campaigns, Schmidt elaborated on why the web is important:
"This is going to happen over and over again as people use these new media to communicate," Schmidt said at a speech to the Republican Governors Association in Miami. "The ones that take advantage of this most effectively will be the ones that will be the winners of the next election.
Schmidt also said that his company was establishing procedures to stop web spamming (aka "Google bombing") that many left-wing blogs engaged in during the 2006 elections by repeatedly linking to negative articles about Republicans in order to bump them upward in search results. Unsavory business types also love to engage in this, in many cases setting up "spam blogs" designed to promote their products and web sites to unsuspecting web readers.
Eric Schmidt's remarks are doubly interesting considering how much negative publicity his company has received for being unfair to conservatives. It's possible things may be changing on that account. We'll have to see. He's certainly correct in his analysis in any case.
I'd also add that Republicans are a good deal behind Democrats on this account.
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Then I guess the guys from Yo
November 30, 2006 - 13:22 ET by Hero SquadThen I guess the guys from YouTube are a shoo-in to become the next president. Can't get much better than using the Internet to cash in on a $1.6 billion windfall.
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"You've got to turn on evil, when it's coming after you. You've gota face it down, and when it tries to hide, you've gotta go in after it, and never be denied." - Neil Young
'Our money's green too', as t
November 30, 2006 - 13:31 ET by Ten7s'Our money's green too', as they used to say. Conservatives, using vast amounts of money, try to counter Liberals' built-in advantage in the media. Liberals keep spending to stay ahead, and if the Left falls behind (unlikely considering they still have the MsM and Hollywood), they get a little extra push from the ether of Cyberspace. Its a Win, Win proposition from Google's perspective.
Some have touted Finance, Media, and Democracy (of the Libertine type, rather than of the sober Constitutional Republic) as the hallmarks of emerging American politics. Seems barely possible.
Campaign finance hurt. Even
November 30, 2006 - 16:08 ET by JDWCampaign finance hurt. Even so, news media has lost it's audience and continues to lose more. Conservative talk show radio, FOX, and internet are absorbing the readers. Why do the dems demand equal time, CFR was not effective enough. The dems who attempt to participate here simply cannot, facts are a formula for surrender and surrender is not on the plate. Imagine living with the party you supported based on the issues they promised when in the end they were lying all along (9/11 Committee recommendations...).
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Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Google needs EEO oversight
November 30, 2006 - 14:39 ET by j17ghsTell Schmidt to get off his ass and make his Goo-Goo site a real company and not some partisan shill for neo-Stalinsts and neo-Nazis, a.k.a., liberals and Leftists (yeah, sure). Google needs equal employment opportunity oversight. I'm sure Democrats won't object at all, because they should understand after having been forced to give up slavery and then 100 years of segregation.
Dems only remember whar serves them well
November 30, 2006 - 18:20 ET by PlaceboGood stuff! Yep GOOGLE is another leftist, fascist ,yada, yada... arrogant bastards, too. Dems only remember whar serves them well, which isn't a helluva lot!
Eric Schmidt needs to get a life and get over himself.
November 30, 2006 - 20:35 ET by acaiguanaEric Schmidt needs to get a life and get over himself.
The Internet will be the normal great form of information and discussion it currently enjoys, with or without Google.
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