Google chief sees Bing as main threat

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was the company’s main threat, not Facebook or Apple.”While it’s true web search is not the only game in town, searching information is what it is all about,” Schmidt said in Wall Street Journal interview video posted online.He described Apple as a well-respected competitor and Facebook as a “company of consequence doing an excellent job in social networking,” but said that Microsoft’s latest-generation search engine was Google’s main competition.To read this AFP report in full, see:
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