Archive for March 30th, 2008

The Federal Government & Google

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 by John Stauffer | No Comments

photo-mike_bradshaw.jpgWhen the NSA or CIA attempts to search its databases for intelligence information they’ll soon be able to say what most civilians do when searching for information: “Google it”

A little known group within Google, the federal sales team, recently signed a deal with the federal governments’ intelligence agencies to provide servers for a secure searchable database much like the popular civilian Internet search engine.

“We are a very small group, and even a lot of people in the federal government don’t know that we exist,” said Mike Bradshaw, head of Google’s federal sales team, in a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Read the rest of this entry »