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Interesting article on the steps Google has made in the past few years to make friends in Washington.

Snippet from Ken Auletta's article in the New Yorker: "In June 2005, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington D.C. hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a Washington oddity then. Although it was a multibillion-dollar company, with enormous power, it had no political-action committee, and its Washington office had opened, in 2005, with a staff of one, in suburban Maryland." That office now numbers thirty people, among them Robert Boorstin, a former speechwriter for President Clinton.