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Google chief Schmidt denies fixing search results
Business digest: Chairman tells senators company has learnt lessons from Microsoft
ERIC SCHMIDT, the executive chairman of Google, has denied claims that the search giant abused its monopoly position as market leader and "fixed" search results to favour the company's own products and services.
Addressing a congressional hearing in Washington, Schmidt told senators: "May I simply say that I can assure you we're not cooking anything. Google does nothing to block access to any of the competitors and other sources of information."
A senate committee and a US Federal Trade Commission are both investigating whether Google has been "cooking" its search results, as is the European Commission. Schmidt accepted the search engine's monopoly position, but claimed it would never engage in anti-competitive practises.
"We get it. By that I mean, we get the lessons of our corporate predecessors," Schmidt said, in reference to the software giant Microsoft which faced massive fines after years of investigation into its monopolistic activities.
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The average person will not stand up to his boss or the government and he probably will not be smart enough to look past page one in his searches. Google's algorithm does some interesting things that I am not qualified to speak about but information is information and in an age that makes us rethink the fact that the speed of light is indeed fastest, well, maybe we ALL need to do some thinking. For example, WHO is complaining about Google? Let us put that into the search engines.
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