Another great day at Google.

So I want to welcome you.

I have this strong memory from Barack Obama's first presidential campaign.

It was November of 2007, and Obama was speaking to a wrapped audience of Google employees

in Mountain View, California.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

It was the kind of optimistic message we heard a lot of back then.

So no, that the Google story is more than just being about the bottom line.

It's about seeing what we can accomplish when we believe in things that are unseen.

When we take the measure of our changing times and we take action to shape them.

And that's why we're here today.

Tech was the key to a better future, a way to innovate and disrupt, and to give Americans

more tools to connect directly with their government.

Together we can open up the government and invite all citizens in while connecting all

of America to 21st century broadband.

And now all that feels like such a long time ago, even though some of the players from

that administration are about to come back into the next one.

It's such a worthwhile exercise to go back that far because the climate was so different.

That's Cecilia Kong.

She's a tech reporter for The New York Times.

You reminded me that Obama didn't just visit Google when it came to his administration's

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