Google CEO wanted political donation removed: book 1 April 2011 Google announced in January that Schmidt would be replaced as chief executive on April 4 by Google co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt, who openly endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election, will remain with Google as executive chairman. According to the Times, the book also details Google's troubled relationship with China, saying it was plagued by "missteps from the start." Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks during a conference in San Francisco, California 2010. An upcoming book Google announced in January of last year that it about Google claims that Schmidt, who is to step down had been targeted by cyber attacks originating in next week as chief executive, once asked for information China and that it was no longer willing to self- about a political donation he made to be removed from censor content to comply with government rules. the Internet giant's search engine, The New York Times reported Friday. In 2004, Google founders Page and Sergey Brin were coached on how to behave during a visit to China, according to the book, including receiving advice from former US vice president Al Gore. An upcoming book about Google claims that Eric Schmidt, who is to step down next week as chief After formally entering China in 2006, Google fired executive, once asked for information about a its head of government relations there for giving political donation he made to be removed from the iPods to Chinese officials and charging them to her Internet giant's search engine, The New York Google expense account, the Times quoted the Times reported Friday. book as saying. The Times said Schmidt's request is recounted in Google also reportedly refused to grant money to "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and advertise in China and Page and Brin did not visit Shapes Our Lives," a book by technology journalist the country after Google opened an office there. Steven Levy which is to appear in stores on April 12. In addition, Google blocked software engineers in China from having access to its code base used to The Times said Levy spent three years reporting invent new products, the book said, because it inside the company to write the book, a copy of feared government officials might force them to which was obtained by the Times. reveal private information. According to the book, Schmidt's request was (c) 2011 AFP rejected as unacceptable by Sheryl Sandberg, who served as Google's vice president of global online sales and operations for six years before leaving in March 2008 for Facebook. 1 / 2 APA citation: Google CEO wanted political donation removed: book (2011, April 1) retrieved 2 October 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2011-04-google-ceo-political-donation.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. 2 / 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).