Google and Obama Links (Photo : REUTERS/Robert Galbraith )
The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth critique pertaining to Google's close ties with the White House.
The WSJ disclosed that the internet giant had entered the White House for about 230 times since President Barrack Obama took place of the Oval Office. Calculating further, WSJ stated that the tech firm visits at least once a week.
Google sent out its response to such allegations and to once and for all clear things up and deflect attention to other companies at the same time, Venture Beat reported.
The 230 visits claimed by the WSJ were explained by Google Senior Vice President Of Communications And Policy Rachel Whetstone saying that 33 of the mentioned visits were made by people not yet employed by Google at the time of such visit. Five of the remaining 197 were from Google's technical engineer who has been helping out to fix the Healthcare.gov website.
Dozens of the remaining visits were about YouTube interviews for the President Obama's State of the Union and photo shoots for Google's Art Project. Other remaining visits were for summits which were normally attended by staff from other tech companies, including Yahoo! and Microsoft
Google responded to the WSJ's post with mockery and accusations claiming that the report contained inaccurate information which was intended to mislead readers, according to International Business Times.
"The meetings we did have were not to discuss the antitrust investigation. In fact, we seem to have discussed everything but," said Google explaining that many of the visits and meetings were subjects ranging from self-driving cars to cybersecurity.
