Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has announced his endorsement of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Schmidt is also rumored to be in the running for the chief technology officer role that Obama plans to fill should he win the presidency.

Apparently this has no bearing whatsoever on Google’s attempts to get the Justice Department to approve its search deal with Yahoo…

Source: Monica Langley and Jessica E. Vascellaro, “Google CEO Backs Obama”, The Wall Street Journal

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