"Google is ramping up its campaign machine ahead of the 2012 election, raking in $570,000 for its political action committee in the first six months of the year — the most it has raised in a single cycle since its PAC opened shop.
The search giant’s midyear report, filed July 29, shows Google has already brought in more in the first half of 2011 than over the course of the entire 2010 cycle. The amount dwarfs what the company raised during the 2006 and 2008 cycles combined."
Google's PAC posts big uptick
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