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digs, it felt more like Silicon Valley than K Street. It now has a policy staff of about 20, including a former member of Rep. Spencer Bachus's (R-Ala.) staff who was hired to improve GOP ties; a top telecom aide came from Sen. Byron Dorgan's (D-N.D.) staff.

Still, the company publicly maintains that it is first and foremost a resource on technology issues in Washington -- going so far as to provide actual technological support to legislators and agencies that want to learn more about downloading online applications and other web services.

"I think in the long run it's the right way to succeed here, to stay focused on the big picture and what's good for consumers," says Alan Davidson, Google's D.C.-based head of public policy.

Google is trying to parlay its tech-expert status into access that will yield real financial returns. In September, at an event at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer (the guy who oversees the government's tech spending), announced a new site that lets federal agencies buy applications that run on the Internet (known as cloud computing) instead of installing software on their computers.

Executives from Microsoft and Salesforce.com (CRM) were there, along with Sergey Brin, who arrived to the event late in his Tesla roadster, according to an account in the New York Times. Moments after the plans were unveiled, Google said it was launching a "government cloud" data center specifically designed for government agencies. Google's effort to sell its cloud software to businesses hasn't gained much traction, but "the U.S. government is probably the largest enterprise I know of," said Brin.

Google's fingerprints are visible on a broad new report on the future of the Internet and information commissioned by the Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute. The paper calls for greater broadband deployments and "open-access policies." FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and the administration's chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, praised the report, saying it would guide Obama's web policy. The co-chair of the commission that wrote the report? Google vice president Marissa Mayer.

Obama and his tech regulators, including Genachowski, have long supported one of Google's top policy priorities: codifying "Net neutrality" rules that prohibit network providers like AT&T, Verizon, and the cable operators from prioritizing traffic and content that run on their networks.

Google would like lawmakers or regulators to ensure that Comcast can't decide to run more content from, say, video-content company Hulu.com than from YouTube because Hulu pays them more. Google and its supporters say they are fighting for the rights of consumers to have access to whatever content they want on the web without fear of a phone company deciding when or how fast to deliver it.

Opponents say Net neutrality would prevent them from throttling back a bandwidth hogging application that was slowing down service for everyone on the network; phone companies will also tell you that these are private networks they spend billions of dollars to maintain, and if they can't find ways to make money on them, they'll stop investing.

Google has earned its consumerist stripes by delivering great utility to Net users -- gratis. Its search engine, which the majority of Americans use, is subsidized by advertising. So are its e-mail service, its video site, and other fare. "How can anyone be mad when it's being so generous?" facetiously asks Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a consultant for Google rival Microsoft. "It's brilliant."

In fact some consumer groups and regulators are starting to ask questions about the seemingly benevolent tech company. Late last year the Bush Justice Department advised Google it would file an antitrust

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