News might have reached you that web search behemoth Google is setting up its own political action committee (PAC) - a strangely Orwellian sounding name for what is basically a kind of political pressure group. The fact that Google is growing itself a pair of political cahunas should come as no surprise really; the search giant has been dipping its toe in these waters for some time now, courting both the Tories and Team Blair in almost equal measure. For the record, its netPAC organisation will in due course (reportedly) be backing political candidates who share the same objectives as Google, such as net neutrality. In this regard, Google's political affiliations will lie with no one party, on either side of the Pond, but with any individual who, basically, agrees with it.

There will be many souls, however, who get ever so slightly nervous when a multi-billion dollar conglomerate decides to flex its rather large muscles in the corridors of power. It's not a given but, for the most part, what Google wants, Google gets.