Google Invests $16.8 million For Lobbying At White House

Google organized 230 meetings at the White House investing $16.8 million

Google Inc (GOOG) the search engine has been trying its best to make its way to White House and thus for the same reason has invested $16.8 million to lobby with the authorities.

The Wall Street Journal, which is a popular commodity in terms of quality and authentic content has recently published a report that talks about the company’s reach within the governmental bodies in United States.

According to the report, it has been estimated that officials and executive from Google have visited the White House almost 230 times from the time President Barack Obama has been appointed as the President of USA. This indicates that the company has reached the secretariat every week after his deployment. This Google news has created immense disruption.

This is a massive breakthrough for the company since Comcast who also tried to lobby in White House only succeeded to meet the President only 20 times.

The meeting started when highly sensitive meetings were arranged by the Federal Trade Commission. The investigation was about GOOG being involved in antitrust activities such as unfair and monopolistic search practice mechanism.

The co-founder of Google met the FTC so that they could come to a settlement. Apart from that, Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt was successful in becoming the senior advisor to the President of United States regarding the investigations were being done.

A spokesperson belonging to FTC, Justin Cole told the Wall Street Journal told the public that the FTC is basically an independent commodity that does not really have any relation to Google’s affiliation with the White House. So the results of the investigation will not be under the influence of the government whatsoever.

Ironically, Google was not accused by the authority for being involved in any such activity but has decided itself to change its actions so that no inconvenience is caused whatsoever.

Google’s visit at the White House is extremely symbolic in nature and many people find it extremely suspicious for the company to be involved in meetings at the time it was accused. The spokeswomen of Google, Niki Christoff stated:

“We think it is important to have a strong voice in the debate and help policy makers understand our business and the work we do to keep the Internet open, to build great products, and to fuel economic growth.”

Many critics are not willing to go accept Google’s justification of the matter and believe that the company has a lot more to hide and disguise. Organizing meetings at such a stage when it has been accused by an law enforcing agency points a completely different story to many minds.