Google quickly gaining on Microsoft in lobbying spending
C|Net | at | by Mike
While Microsoft has needed all the help it could hire in Washington, D.C., after its antitrust debacle many years ago, Google is quickly catching up to it as a tech power to be reckoned with in the nation's capital.
According to the most recent public reports filed by Google with the Senate on its lobbying spending there, the search giant has significantly increased its outlay in 2009 from the previous two years.
In 2007--as you can see from the table below--Google spent a total of $1.52 million, which rose to $2.84 million in 2008. And the 2009 total? Just over $4 million, according to the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database.