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Google States “Get Online, America”

Google registers 100+ domain names related to getting more people online.

UPDATE: Here’s what Google is up to.

It looks like Google is working on a fresh campaign to help get more Americans online.

Over the past week the firm has registered over 100 domain names counting various state names and variations of “Get Online”.

The domains follow these patterns:

AlaskaGetOnline.com
GetAlaskaOnline.com
GetOnlineAlaska.com

The domains seem to cover all 50 states.

This may also be part of the firm’s lobbying and PR efforts to help people get fast broadband connections. Although it’s not clear if Google is the registrant, a firm that registers domains for Google also registered HowFastIsMyBrowser.com at the same time.

One of Google’s registrations might irk a rather sizable ISP: GetAmericaOnline.com

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