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It seems to be a collection of things to help fight against evil. I couldn't navigate the site (firefox), so I just looked at the source. What I see is:

-a reverse proxy -service to scrape various business records, helping journalists analyzing records -anti-phishing tool (browser plugin?) that verifies you're not putting your (Google) password into a wrong site.

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Wow. That's....really underwhelming.

I don't know. Taken from a sort of "Digital Poverty" point of view, these seem like good sane items to try to reduce that, and they aren't all aimed at one area. They are supporting both human rights (from the internet access as a human right perspective, which may be controversial, but is at least arguable), and fighting corruption. Both noble goals IMHO, and areas where Google's possible contributions line up with their core strengths and values.

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