Google Chairman Schmidt: We have no monopoly search

Google does not monopolize Internet search and competes with Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said in a letter to the U.S. Congress's antitrust subcommittee, Beijing time November 5. "Google has a lot of strong competitors, and Google has no feature that makes me think about the power of the market," Schmidt wrote. ”

September 21, the United States Congress held hearings, mainly with Google abuse search market status. Schmidt's letter is just a question of answering some of the hearings. Mr Schmidt argues that Google complies with legitimate standards in determining whether an enterprise has enough market share, monopoly power, and competition.

The FTC is conducting a antitrust investigation of Google to see if it hurts competition. The U.S. government wants to determine whether Googole has enough market power to control prices and repel rivals if it violates antitrust laws.

Robert Lande, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, argues that Google is trying to avoid major market problems, but simply that everything in the world competes with Google. He said: "I think Google will fail at this point, but no matter how they try." ”

Google's share of the U.S. search market was 65.3% in September, 64.8% in August and Yahoo's market share falling below 16% per cent, according to comscore.

In the letter, Mr. Schmidt added, Google's rivals are already more than just old competitors, such as Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook and Siri. Siri is the voice recognition service that Apple launched last month. "Because of the new situation of access to information, we sometimes fail to assess its competitive threat," Schmidt said. ”

Mr. Schmidt did not respond to a question from lawmakers that fairsearch.org, the conglomerate, had accused Google of violating antitrust laws. "Today, Mr Schmidt continues to respond to congressional concerns, and Congress fears that Google will use its monopoly power," Fairsearch.org said in a statement. ”

Some companies say Google prefers its own services in ranking search results, and Schmidt responded by saying: "Google does not have a high ranking of its own services, if the services are other companies, will be ranked the same high." ”

Comment Network Ylep, the British comparison network Foundem accuses Google of lowering its ranking in the results, because they compete directly with Google.

Schmidt responded that the shopping and comment function was not a stand-alone service, and it was added to the search engine, primarily because users wanted more immediate answers, not links to other sites. "There is no independent Google product for love preference," he said. ”

Lawmakers are worried about Google's Android dominance, which will repel its rivals ' services in smartphones and claim that its opponents ' technology is not compatible with Android.

Mr. Schmidt responded that Google did not require smartphone makers to ship products that included only Google-approved software, nor did they require them to be pre-installed with Google Apps. Google provides technical specifications that allow Android apps to run better on different models. "Google respects manufacturers ' free choice of Android pre-installed programs," he said. "Google has not forced the manufacturer to use Google search as the default search.

Mr. Schmidt also said that Google did not force Motorola and Samsung to remove Skyhook wireless wireless software from their handsets. Skyhook service can determine the location of the phone, it competes with the Google program. "Google is simply asking manufacturers to use Skyhook software that is compatible with Android," Schmidt said. ”