Google Looks For Lobbyists In Europe

Lobbyists, on the whole, have a pretty bad reputation.  They’re regarded as a rather shady group of people; one of the main headings in a Wikipedia article is “corruption concerns.”  Draw your own conclusions, then, about this bit of news: Google wants to hire lobbyists throughout Europe.

According to the Nate Anderson did an excellent job of summarizing the many problems Google has encountered in recent days; there are, to understate the issue, a lot of them, and many occurred in Europe and Asia.

One unnamed lobbyist - who quite possibly threw his or her application on Google’s pile - agreed that the company needs help.  “They thought that they could sit on the west coast [of the US] being techie and not deal with all the politics.  Then they realized government has a responsibility to determine the public interest and if you are not talking to them, others are.”

Never fear (or, maybe, “fear” a lot) - Google has gotten the message and is in the process of getting a lot of lobbyists.