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Siri, Facebook, Twitter are challengers to Google dominance: Eric Schmidt

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Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri is a direct threat to Google’s search engine. That’s according to the internet giant’s chairman Eric Schmidt.

“Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S,” Schmidt acknowledged in a written response to the Senate antitrust subcommittee.

He also pointed out a number of other challengers to Google’s internet dominance, including Facebook, Twitter and traditional search competitors like Yahoo! and Microsoft Bing.

“Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter also allow users to leverage their social networks to find answers to their questions. Google is therefore competing with all methods available to access information on the Internet, not just other general search engines,” Schmidt wrote.

“The source of Facebook’s competition with Google is not only through using Bing to search the internet but, also by offering users a fundamentally different way to discover and connect with information on the internet.”

An analyst for financial and investment magazine Forbes recently said that Siri’s launch could spell “a future crippling of Google’s business”.

Respected technology site TechCrunch, meanwhile, described Siri as Apple’s “entry point” into the search engine business.

Writing for the powerful tech site, Radar Networks CEO Nova Spivack disagreed with the assessment from Forbes.

“Siri is not trying to solve the general Web search problem,” he said, “it’s trying to do something quite different. Siri is focused on completing tasks for you, not finding Web pages”.

“Siri is shifting the interaction paradigm for the Web from search to assistance,” he added.

Schmidt’s response comes as Google’s share of the US search market climbed back up to above 65%.

The internet-giant is also currently under investigation by anti-trust bodies in the US and Europe.

Schmidt insists that Google is “not dominant” in internet search, as has been the contention of lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Google has many strong competitors,” Schmidt wrote. “So inferring that Google is in any way ‘dominant’ in search would be incorrect.”

He added that the company “has none of the characteristics that I associate with market power.”

Schmidt had previously told lawmakers that he was worried Google customers would switch to other services.

Siri was launched to general fanfare alongside the latest iteration of Apple’s iPhone, the 4S.

Additional reporting: AFP


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  • Anonymous

    The crimes Eric Schmidt involved into, including killing the innocent (Stanford Student May Zhou) and conspiring life of the victim (me), is fascism by nature; and such crimes would not be excused by any other reasons (e.g. for business reasons); and such crimes would not be tolerated anywhere, let alone in a civilized country as U.S. Their crimes had extended to U.S. citizen (e.g. May Zhou) and against U.S. authorities, and their crimes are surely far more than what I have described on the web, which I believe had already been well documented at judicial authorities. If their crimes could not be clarified to the public and concurred at authorities, it would be a serious offending to the dignity of the nation of the United States.

    Fighting against these powerful criminals is a tough task, because anywhere this case is going, there are powers on these criminals’ side to cover them up while conspiring the victim. The consequences of what Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun already had done are irreparable and unforgivable. And I don’t think Schmidt and Thrun’s side would ever regret of what they did. In my opinion, Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun would have to face legal consequences and pay for their crimes sooner or later. Until these crimes clarified to the public and concurred at authorities, Eric Schmidt, Sebastian Thrun and power behind them would remain a menace to human soceity.

  • Anonymous

    Eric Schmidt is a large shareholder of Google, which would make google hard to leave Eric Schmidt desciplined; however, can anyone take his place to help him deny his involvment into those crimes which had cost human lives? Didn’t Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun already get Google’s name into these crimes?
    As long as these anti-humanity crimes not clarified, all the people invovled would continue to be haunted. I bet no one would be willing to take the responsibility to cover up crimes Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun brought to our lives. All the unfortunate happening in my life in the past 7 years originated in crimes from powers behind Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun’s side. I would not stop public challenging as long as these crimes not clarified and concurred.

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  • Anonymous

    Google’s era under Eric Schmidt had involved into multiple crimes in Stanford which is fascism by nature.

    Google’s Eric Schmidt had abused google resources to financially and politicially supported a criminal suspect named Gabriele Scheler, along with a Stanford Computer Science faculty Sebastian Thrun, against ruling from Stanford and police authorities. During their fight with Stanford, Eric Schmidt’s side had murdered an innocent Stanford student May Zhou in 2007 to threaten me and to terrorize Stanford. When they found I would not compromise a bit but actively tried to clarify the case, Eric Schmidt’s side did plot a murder on me as well. The only reason they didn’t make it a reality is becaue they were closely watched by police and they are afraid of leaving evidence (not becasuse they have any mercy on me as a human being, fascism by nature.) Eric Schmidt lost his CEO position because of his involvment into these crimes.

    Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun had not paid for their crimes and they would have to, despite all the hypes about them.

  • Anonymous

    The crimes Eric Schmidt involved into, including killing the innocent (Stanford Student May Zhou) and conspiring life of the victim (me), is fascism by nature; and such crimes would not be excused by any other reasons (e.g. for business reasons); and such crimes would not be tolerated anywhere, let alone in a civilized country as U.S. Their crimes had extended to U.S. citizen (e.g. May Zhou) and against U.S. authorities, and their crimes are surely far more than what I have described on the web, which I believe had already been well documented at judicial authorities. If their crimes could not be clarified to the public and concurred at authorities, it would be a serious offending to the dignity of the nation of the United States.

    Fighting against these powerful criminals is a tough task, because anywhere this case is going, there are powers on these criminals’ side to cover them up while conspiring the victim. The consequences of what Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun already had done are irreparable and unforgivable. And I don’t think Schmidt and Thrun’s side would ever regret of what they did. In my opinion, Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun would have to face legal consequences and pay for their crimes sooner or later. Until these crimes clarified to the public and concurred at authorities, Eric Schmidt, Sebastian Thrun and power behind them would remain a menace to human soceity.

  • Anonymous

    Eric Schmidt is a large shareholder of Google, which would make google hard to get Eric Schmidt desciplined; however, can anyone take his place to help him deny his involvment into those crimes which had cost human lives? Didn’t Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun already get Google’s name into these crimes?
    As long as these anti-humanity crimes not clarified, all the people invovled would continue to be haunted. I bet no one would be willing to take the responsibility to cover up crimes Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun brought to our lives. All the unfortunate happening in my life in the past 7 years originated in crimes from powers behind Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun’s side. I would not stop public challenging as long as these crimes not clarified and concurred.

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