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Schmidt: Google Won't Make Microsoft's Mistakes

Is Google destined to become the next Microsoft with regard to antitrust issues and its attempts to fend off the next generation of Web startups? "Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened to them," chief exec Eric Schmidt tells Neil Cavuto on Fox Business News. What about the potential for Twitter and Facebook to take momentum away from Google among younger Internet users, similar to how companies like Google came along to trump Microsoft? On the contrary, users of the social networking services are actually using Google even more, says Schmidt. "The companies that you mention (IBM and Microsoft) made mistakes years ago that hopefully we're not making ... Hopefully the mistakes that we're making now won't put us in those kinds of predicaments."

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