Another day and more Google domain name registrations. This time, relating to syndication. Garett Rogers has (per usual) some great analysis. Here are the domains.

All were registered .com, .net, and .org:
+ googlesyndicatesearch.com
+ goglesyndicatedsearch.com
+ googlesyndicated-search.com
+ googlesindicatedsearch.com
+ google-syndicatedsearch.com
+ google-syndicated-search.com
+ googlesyndicated-search.com
+ syndicatedsearchgoogle.com
+ wwwgooglesyndicatedsearch.com
+ wwwsyndicatedsearchgoogle.com

See Also: Google Syndicated Search coming soon
Garett speculates that this something A9/OpenSearch related. Would be interesting to see how this would be different than Google Co-Op. The challenge would be 1) Get webmasters to use it. 2) Teach users to use it. 3) Make the results mean something versus causing the growing problem of information overload. Users want results. Period and often care little to find the sources that will bring them the best resource. When we’ve used OpenSearch you often get many columns and the overload we were just talking about.

+ Google Forms Political Action Committee
Battelle points to a SF Chronicle article about Google forming a political action committee with the Federal Election Commission.

“Google filed paperwork Thursday to register its political action committee, Google NetPAC, with the Federal Election Commission. The company intends to use the committee “to support candidates who promote an open and free Internet for our users,” according to Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel.”

We’ve tracked down the filing with the FEC (looks like more to come) and see that no money has been distributed yet.

Fyi, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IAC also have PACS.

Of course, employees are free as individuals to donate to any candidate or cause they want to. When an individual makes a campaign donation, it’s recorded by the FEC. PoliticalMoneyLine.com offers a database where you can search by that person’s employer/occupation. You can search by election cycle (2006, 2004, etc.) As of today, a 2006 cycle search for Google turns up 142 records. Yahoo, 67 records. Microsoft, 1533. IAC, 68. Note: You’ll find both contributions to specific candidates and PACs. In some cases, a person could have multiple entries.

See Also: Campaign Finance: Overview (July 31, 2006)
A Congressional Research Service report. 22 pages; PDF.

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