[Dan in Wichita]

"That private dinner meeting with President Obama (and his most trusted aide, Valerie Jarrett) on February 17, 2011 where the CEO's of the following tech companies were present..."

Interesting. It was the following week, February 24, 2011 that Google rolled out a new search engine algorithm. The new algo was dubbed "Panda" and hurt a good many websites. My right-leaning website lost 35% of its traffic that day, and went downhill from there, eventually losing 95% of my traffic and income over the next couple of years.

Although I tried very hard, I never regained my rankings or traffic. No one could figure out why Google hit me so hard, but perhaps things are starting to come into better focus as to what really happened.

[MAGAthon]

definitely worth a read, though the revolving door section probably needs updating:

22 Apr 2016: The Intercept: David Dayen: The Android Administration
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/