Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress
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Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress
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#3at D9:
According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies
1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook)
5-6(paypal,twitter)
Schmidt said he believes Microsoft is “not driving the consumer revolution.” He doesn’t count Microsoft’s Xbox business because it’s “not a platform at the computational level.”
today before congress: Microsoft's Bing has continued to gain in popularity, perhaps because it comes pre-installed as the search default on over 70 percent of new computers sold. Microsoft's Bing is the exclusive search provider for Yahoo! and Facebook. Microsoft recently signed a deal for Bing to power English language search on the fast-rising Chinese search engine Baidu, which Baidu has acknowledged will help it become more competitive in markets outside of China. In addition to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has integrated Bing into its popular gaming console, the Xbox 360, which it is in talks with cable companies to convert into the set-top box of the future. Microsoft?s Bing launched in June 2009 and has grown so rapidly that some commentators have speculated that it could overtake Google as early as 2012.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20109615-93/schmidts-writte...
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#4We need more technically savvy congresspeople.
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#5at D9: According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies 1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook) 5-6(paypal,twitter) Schmidt said he believes Microsoft is “not driving the consumer revolution.” He doesn’t count Microsoft’s Xbox business because it’s “not a platform at the computational level.” today before congress: Microsoft's Bing has continued to gain in popularity, perhaps because it comes p…
Indeed, but one is comparing the consumer tech market as a whole and the other is just in the search market, so this isn't apples to apples (so to speak), no?
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#6The lack of eloquence and understanding by those congresspeople is very, very disappointing.
Mr. Schmidt answered those questions in an excellent manner.
The racetrack analogy was particularly unnerving.
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#7Holy shit, they're are hammering down on Eric Schmidt accusing Google of tampering with search results and what not for pretty dumb reasons imho. Seems really unfair to me.
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#10The lack of eloquence and understanding by those congresspeople is very, very disappointing. Mr. Schmidt answered those questions in an excellent manner. The racetrack analogy was particularly unnerving.
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