How Google Bankrolls The Research It Uses

NPR podcast and WJ article

[NickMNS]

I just finished listening to this on WNYC (npr). it is an very interesting discussion of how and why Google's funds academic research.
[wnyc.org...]

[robzilla]

Then these may also interest you:
- Google’s Academic Influence Campaign: It's Complicated [wired.com]
- Google’s secretive and deep-pocketed foe heavily funded by Gates, Hewlett foundations [siliconbeat.com]

And from last year:
Anti-Google research group in Washington is funded by Oracle [arstechnica.com]

Haven't listened to the WNYC audio so maybe they already touched upon this.